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Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS

From	VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS
Date	2016-10-16 17:42 -0500
Organization	Usenet Elder
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Jim wrote:

> I have used EaseUS Partition Master 11.9 to format my WD Green to the 
> NTFS format, is this safe to do (safe as in drive not breaking down, and 
> losing data) or should i format to the GPT format?
> 
> Jim

There is no GPT *file* format.  If you want to use a partition then
decide on what *file system* you want inside of it, like NTFS.  GPT is
the *partitioning scheme*.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

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Safe to format 4TB to NTFS Jim <luckyjim2000_2000@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-16 22:14 +0100
  Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-16 17:42 -0500
    Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS Jim <luckyjim2000_2000@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-17 00:57 +0100
      Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS Jim <luckyjim2000_2000@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-17 01:19 +0100
      Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-16 19:50 -0500
        Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS Jim <luckyjim2000_2000@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-17 03:35 +0100
          Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-17 00:22 -0500
  Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.invalid> - 2016-10-16 23:13 -0400
  Re: Safe to format 4TB to NTFS Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-10-16 23:55 -0400

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