Re: System Restore Setup

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:54:01 -0400

Hi,

If that is your system recovery partition, and I suspect it is, just leave
it alone and ignore the MBSA. It always points out any FAT32 volumes. You
don't want to use FAT32 volumes for network sharing, but there is no harm in
having them on the local system. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:ADC33565-388E-4D9F-90A2-91A2229215C9@microsoft.com...
> While running MS Baseline Security Analyzer, it says my drive E is FAT32 
> and
> should be reformatted to NTFS. When Medion setup this computer they made
> drive E the system restore drive, all the restore point files are on this
> drive by date it appears. Is there a way to safely remove this restore 
> data
> and then attempt to reformat the drive to NTFS and restore the restore 
> data.
> I can find nothing that tells me how the data is even pointed to this 
> drive
> unless it is the registry some where.

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