How to Convert a Macintosh Hard Drive to Fat 32. Apple computers configure hard drives differently than Windows computers. Windows uses NTFS or FAT32 as their native file system while Apple uses HFS+.

In XP, there should be a tool that will convert FAT to NTFS. I think it's in Start -> Accessories -> System Tools; I'm not sure because if your partitions is already NTFS when you installed XP ...

You can convert all drives to NTFS assuming that you aren't dual booting your machine. Two of the major benefits are efficient file storage (FAT and even FAT32 waste space because of cluster size ...