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Athalon 64 Newbie Question
I considering building a new system using the athalon 64 cpu..The
question I have is can you use XP home edition or do you need to use XP pro? When formating the drive can you still use the 32 bit format or is it better to use the NTFS format? I have a 30 gig drive and a 120 gig drive now using XP home and have them formatted in 32 bit ..I don't like a lot of partitions on the drives..I formatted the drives using Windows 98se and recently switched to XP home...I'm considering the upgrade to the Athalon 64 soon and would like some advice |
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Win XP Home will run fine on an AMD 64.
You can still use 32bit (FAT32 you mean) formatting But NTFS is a better formatting system. Did you wipe the hard drive and use a full version of Win XP home or is your copy of Win XP home the upgrade version ? I believe Win XP comes with the ability to change your formatting from FAT32 to NTFS, without having to reload everything. Which is the boot drive the 30 or 120 ? "Sachmo" wrote in message news I considering building a new system using the athalon 64 cpu..The question I have is can you use XP home edition or do you need to use XP pro? When formating the drive can you still use the 32 bit format or is it better to use the NTFS format? I have a 30 gig drive and a 120 gig drive now using XP home and have them formatted in 32 bit ..I don't like a lot of partitions on the drives..I formatted the drives using Windows 98se and recently switched to XP home...I'm considering the upgrade to the Athalon 64 soon and would like some advice |
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"Sachmo" wrote...
The question I have is can you use XP home edition or do you need to use XP pro? When formating the drive can you still use the 32 bit format or is it better to use the NTFS format? I have a 30 gig drive and a 120 gig drive now using XP home and have them formatted in 32 bit .. XP Home will work fine. FAT32 will work fine. However, NTFS is more secure if your system is networked. |
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