[jfeeley]

is fat 32 the filesystem ie like the hdd

[bigtomrodney]

The data you write to the harddrive isn't written in a raw format, it is indexed and broken into pieces. This system of organizing is known as a filesystem but it is seperate from the physical disk. Think of it as a way of writing data. So there are many different filesystems.

This link might help

There are plenty of fiesystems. FAT32 can be read/written to by most operating systems. Linux doesn't have one default filesystem but generally ext3 is considered the standard one, with others such as ReiserFS, XFS and JFS being available. Being that the filesystem is just a matter of how the data is written any filesystem can be used on any harddisk - one is not a part of the other.

[jfeeley]

then see in devede when it says dont save to fat32 where can i save the output folder to then

[jfeeley]

windows came installed on my syetem when i got then i installed linux afterwards. ave ran out of ideas its so fustrating

[bigtomrodney]

Are you dual booting still? That is are you still using Windows alongside Linux? Can you run the following commands in a terminal and post the output back here

sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

That's a lowercase L after fdisk