I am currently using the seagate 300gb usb/firewire external hard drive with my dell dimension 8100. I will be buying another desktop and a laptop, the dimension is using the FAT32 system and the new desktop and laptop are using the NTFS files system. Will it be possible back up my files from all computers to the external hard drive, or do I need to get different external hard drives for the new computers. All the computers will also run on a wireless network. Are all the files I'm currently running the dimension useless once I start using my new computers? Thanks.
Why not just convert the external drive to NTFS? To convert a volume to NTFS from the command prompt 1.Open Command Prompt. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt. 2.In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs For example, typing convert D: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: with the ntfs format. You can convert FAT or FAT32 volumes to NTFS with this command. This kind of conversion keeps your files intact (unlike formatting a partition).
