hard drive speed question, and formatting software question

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liquidsoap89

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Okay so my old hard drive crapped out on me last week, so i bought a new one this weekend, and the one that i found has 32mb of something... I was wondering if someone could tell me what that 32mb actually holds, because its more than my second hard drive I have right now. If it's something to do with like, loading speeds or something is it maybe better to format windows on that drive instead of my old one?

And my other question is this... whats a good free formatting program to use for my new hard drive, and one of my external hard drives that I've got sitting around. The external drive came from my ps3 (60 gig), and I would like to format it as fat32 because the ps3 doesn't recognize ntfs as far as I know, and I would like to use this drive with my ps3. So I think all I need is a formatting program that can format fat32 i guess, unless I'm dumb and there's a way to format fat32 with windows.
 
What you have is called 32mb of cache, which will lead to a little faster load times of applications and booting of computer.

You can use whatever OS you are installing to format your system drive. If you have a windows XP machine you can attach your external to it and format it to fat32. Not sure if Vista will allow you to format a drive to fat32 or not.
 
also i think you can only format a drive to FAT32 with windows when it does not exceed 32 GB.. if it's more than that, you may need to download some free software like Swissknife to be able to do it..
 
What OS are you using? In windows xp, just right-click my computer>manage>Disk Management and then select your new drive. Right click the white space and select "New Partition". Just follow the steps. The very last one gives you the option of what style of format you want (fat32,ntfs).
 
Yeh just use the windows disk management utility, you can specify the file system and format it from there.

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