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FAT32 for the Win98 partition, NTFS for the WinXP and the rest.
FAT32 should only be used for data you don't mind losing.
NTFS is a milestone better than FAT32 for many reasons:
1) A journal (ie you're much less likely to lose data due to a filesystem corruption)
2) Encryption features of WinXP (won't work on FAT)
3) Permissions systems of WinXP (won't work on FAT)
4) Scalability (ie you can have much larger partitions / more files etc)
and a load of others I can't remember.
Re game performance, if you have enough RAM then there won't be much of an impact from placing a game on a separate drive. If you don't have enough RAM and your computer is heavily swapping then perhaps you would benefit a little bit.
Placing it on a separate partition is good from a data recovery point of view, but won't do anything for performance - the same set of disk heads is having to jump from partition to partition just as it would if Windows and your game were on the same partition.
A separate disk means two sets of disk heads and should improve performance.
Edit: Bungleau beat me to it [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 09-29-2006, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]
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