Quote: Originally Posted by
Larry D 
Dzomlija, I think you are right it is fat32. Thanks much!
What you need to do then is copy all the contents of the external drive to a temp location on another drive, then format it as NTFS. If you can't empty the drive first, then try using CONVERT from an Administrative Command Prompt to convert it to NTFS.
Although backing up the contents first then formatting directly to NTFS is the safer option...