On a home pc, not networked, which is better?? Fat32 or NTFS on this system...

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1.2Ghz@1.32Ghz AMDK7 Athlon Thunderbird
512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM
ATX Gigabyte 71XE4 Motherboard
40GB Seagate ATA/100 5400RPM
16x 10x 40x LiteON ReWriter
40x Compaq CDDrive
17" NEC Monitor
64MB Nvidia GeForce 2Mx
Ambient 56k V.92Fax Modem
Creative 128PCI Soundcard
Hauppage WinTV Card with Radio

This is because I only want Windows 2000 on...fed up with ME and '98

Thanks!

The downside to NTFS is that there is a slight performance hit compared to FAT32; the upside is that NTFS is more resilient and stable than FAT32, so if your machine does crash, you're much less likely to lose data with NTFS.

I also believe (although I may be wrong) that FAT32 is not so suitable for large hard drives as the cluster size increases as the partition size increases. What this means is that you are more likely to have slack space on a hard drive with FAT32 than with NTFS.

Personally, I would always go with NTFS; on a modern, speedy PC with fast hard drive, the performance hit is negligible and is a small price to pay for data security.

Rgds
AndyF

NTFS is faster than FAT32.

Hey, Marktait, try not to post the same thing in two different places next time--I know it throws me off. "That makes me angry, and when Dr. Evil gets angry, people DIE!!":p