External Hard Drives

I have an external hard drive and it will not hold a DVD .iso file. The format is FAT32. It gives me an error when I try to save isos to it.

Does anyone know if there is a way to format an external hard drive to NTFS so that I can store iso's on there? Or is there a drive that comes already in NTFS format?

Thanks.

 

FAT32 tries to split things over 2gb i think, what os have u got, u need to attach it to the computer right click it in my computer and FORMAT and then should have options FAT32 is the one that will be highlighted and should be albe to chjange it to NTFS

 

I have windows XP.

Thank you, your instructions were helpful.

One more question though, when I click NTFS and then choose FORMAT will this be like reformatting my computer? In other words will I lose everything that is currently on the hard drive?

 

yes...if that is the drive you keep all your information like your OS and other files

 

I just keep music and word documents on here. Will those get deleted when I change formats?

 

yes u can move them to the HDD that the os is on then back on to the External HDD when been formatted.

 

LOL I figured that out. But thanks.

Thanks again to everyone who helped, problem solved.

 

Good, hopefully now i[bold]t[/bold] will work

 

Just for further reference, you should [bold]NOT[/bold] lose your data if you are just converting from FAT32 to NTSF. Of course it is always a good idea to backup your data anyway.