I bought a 300 gb external maxtor 6 L300R0 hard drive and installed it with no problems. But when I transfer data from my other hard drives onto it..it a takes ridiculously long time, like an hour to transfer 700 mb's of data. I noticed that the new drive runs on ntfs file system and my other drives run on fat32. Is the difference in file systems what is causing the slow transfer speed? If so what would be the simplest way to convert the drive from ntfs to fat32? And is it possible to do this without losing the data that i have on the drive?
If the difference in file systems is not what is causing the slow transfer speeds what could it be? And how would i go about fixing this problem?
I am using Windows XP SP2
Thanks
If the difference in file systems is not what is causing the slow transfer speeds what could it be? And how would i go about fixing this problem?
I am using Windows XP SP2
Thanks