T60 hard drives formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Do the hard drives on newer T60s come formatted NTFS?

Thanks

 

Most definitely. It would be hard to find a PC/Laptop manufacturer have their HDDs formatted with FAT32.

 

Good to know. I could've sworn I read that HP dv5000s or dv8000s came formatted as fat32.

 

if that is the case, I believe, you can convert the FAT32 partition of your drive into NTFS without losing any data. After factory restoring my X60, crappy BSoD, it booted up, installed IBM cutom stuff, reboot, more IBM cutom stuff, reboot and then oddly it went to a chkdsk screen but said it was converting the parition to NTFS even with all the OS and whatnot installed.

But regardless, I got both X60 and T60 with an NTFS partition so you have an answer direct from a T60 owner.

 

Most systems, laptop or desktop, are prepared from the factory as FAT32 because they make generic images of similar systems then restore that partition (most partition image utilities I saw, do not make images of NTFS partition, probably because of excessive fragmentation), then make customizations. at the end of the installation, the partition is converted to NTFS.
Try a Factory Restore of T60 and you'll see what I mean...

 

My sister bought one of the cheap Acer laptops from Circuit City. The 60GB hard drive is partitioned in half, and both partitions are formatted FAT32.

 

well, I said "most" not "all"

anyways, both my T60 and hp desktops are NTFS. both are sysprep-ed at factory as FAT32 but converted to NTFS at the end of the installation. so end-users received them as NTFS.

 

First use of Thinkpads include a process that converts FAT32 to NTFS.