All the OEM machines I've seen have come formatted as NTFS. IIRC, this is a stipulation from MS, that all XP systems should ship with NFTS, which I agree with.

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

SOL has announced that its PrFILE2 exFAT file system has been adopted for use as a data management software in the Nintendo ...

To make your Western Digital hard drive work on both Mac and Windows computers, you need to format the drive with the FAT32 file system. Although both operating systems can format your drive with the ...

These days, New Technology File System or NTFS is the most popular data format being used in most flash drives. But note that, most pen drives available in the market still doesn’t come formatted in ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...