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A friend of mine bought a Lap-Top and so he brought the computer at my place to install Windows XP.
ok. And at the beginning of the instalation I was given an option:

to format the drive using NTFS file system (quickly)
to format the drive using NTFS file system
to convert the partition to NTFS (from FAT32 to NTFS)
to leave the current file system intact - which doesn`t matter because the PC is brand new, offcourse.

Now all of the PC-s I have seen before have NTFS file systems. Plus if you want to reinstall Windows later and format the drive, the options usually say "format the drive using NTFS file system". And a buddy of mine told me some time ago that that`s the way things should be (NTFS).

So, I converted the partition into NTFS. (from FAT32 to NTFS)

But I`m not sure if I did the right thing - I mean, why the file system was FAT32 in the first place? Did I made a mistake?

The Lap-Top is brand new, as I said, Celeron - M440 (whatever that means); intel processor 1.8 Ghz; 512 RAM etc.