![]() How to Format an External Hard Drive. This wikiHow teaches you how to change an external (USB) hard drive's format on Windows and Mac computers. FAT32 - Works on Windows and Mac, but has a storage limit of 32 gigabytes with an individual file size of 4 gigabytes. Can I format an external hard drive to work for both Mac and windows. While this work space devoid of wires never fails to charm me, I am always peeved when it comes to backing up my data as I have to crouch, use a flashlight and connect my external hard drive to a USB port that I have never successfully plugged in on the first attempt, ever! Then, I realized that there are some great wifi external hard drive choices out there, to go completely wireless, absolutely no holds barred! Below, you will find my findings on what I think are the best WiFi external hard drive choices out there at the moment. My C drive has just lost about 200mb of data since booted. I have not downloaded anything. Things I have tried -Clearing temporary files -Ran Malwarebytes and Kapersky both came up clean -Disk error check came up with no errors -Another user on the forum suggested it was the page file. If so how come it only started doing this on Monday and I have had my computer up and running since August? If this is the problem can someone please guide me through the page file resizing. -I rarely download anything on my c drive and if i do i transfer it to my 1tb storage drive. -Also my Ram usage and processor usage is normal System Specs Windows 7 64 Bit Professional i7 3820 p9x79 pro 120gb Forcer Series SSD 1TB Seagate HD 8gb RAM Here is a screenshot of page file. Absolutely, Windows 7 is a space hog -- those files just keep growing in an effort to consume the whole drive. The other thing that you can do is delete all the restore points but leave restore on for now, then install a program and see how much space that new restore point takes. Restore is really not that important since you can easily do a repair install, which will repair Windows but leave all your data and programs intact. When you really have an issue restore is not much use anyway. Nonetheless, always do good backup (which does not include anything on an external drive since they have so many issues on their own) as you never know when things will go totally bad with a virus or something. After some years with xp, 7, 8, discovered all take up about 62GB after service packs, updates. That's as big as it got as of not too long ago. Xp system requirements are 1.5GB for initial install (did they change the page?). Windows 7's system requirements are 16GB of space for initial install. You should have at least a 250-500GB drive to use windows minimum. I prefer to have a 2-4TB or larger drive, but the drives over 2TB must be GPT partitioned and require special BIOS configuration to support UEFI boot to install correctly to see the whole drive. Defrag will tell you it needs 15% free space to run (ouch). Restore points only last for 30 days and then get dropped. So it's not that big of a deal, keep your restore points.
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