All the OEM machines I've seen have come formatted as NTFS. IIRC, this is a stipulation from MS, that all XP systems should ship with NFTS, which I agree with.

You might have come across these computer terms including FAT32, NTFS and much more. So what exactly is that? To make it simple both FAT32 and NTFS are file systems created for keeping track of files ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...