Guest Schizo Posted December 4, 2003 Hi Everyone, I just bought WindowsXP Prof and it is asking me which file system I want to use? NTFS or FAT32 and I am not sure which to pick? If I use NTFS will I be able to reinstall my games like FS2004, OFP, MOHAA, IL2FB, etc? I bought it for lo-mac? Thanks!!! Schizo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadJeff 3 Posted December 4, 2003 NTFS, no question. It's a better performing disk system with all the advantages NT security brings. As far as the games, everything will install the same, since it's an OS subsystem, the games/apps don't know the difference. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Schizo Posted December 4, 2003 Thanks MJ, I wasn't sure what to do. Thanks again, Schizo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tc223 0 Posted December 4, 2003 Jeff/All, Just curious.. When you guys do a clean install, do you normally put the OS on its own partition for performance? ie: If I had a 40gig drive, would you partition like 10gigs and just use that for the OS itself? I read it both ways.. what do the flight simmers think? Performance boost at all? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MadJeff 3 Posted December 5, 2003 Jeff/All,Just curious.. When you guys do a clean install, do you normally put the OS on its own partition for performance? ie: If I had a 40gig drive, would you partition like 10gigs and just use that for the OS itself? I read it both ways.. what do the flight simmers think? Performance boost at all? You only get a perf boost if the OS and swap are on seperate physical drives. Seperate partitions on the same drive is not going to gain you anything, but is always a little neater to find stuff on. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BUFF 8 Posted December 5, 2003 Jeff/All,Just curious.. When you guys do a clean install, do you normally put the OS on its own partition for performance? ie: If I had a 40gig drive, would you partition like 10gigs and just use that for the OS itself? I read it both ways.. what do the flight simmers think? Performance boost at all? It certainly makes it easier to reformat & reinstall your OS if all your data is in its own partition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tc223 0 Posted December 5, 2003 How big would you want it? Just big enough for XP? Like 2-3 gigs? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites