what is the most reliable ntfs or fat32 for my hard drive.. im on ntfs and not too sure about its backgrownd..

I'd stick with ntfs. Less defragmenting needed more secure and more stable when running xp. Why buy xp if your gonna run it fat 32?

i have been in computers for about 2 yrs ish now and allways been on fat32 but previosly reinstalled xp pro and well to ntfs.. so what do u mean by the y buy xp and run on fat32 is that not a good thing..

As Chad says, NTFS is more secure, more reliable and less defragmenting. No more lost clusters or crosslinked files with NTFS. The only thing that Fat32 has in its favour is that it is slightly faster, but then its not doing half the work that NTFS is. To buy XP and run it on Fat32 is negating some of the advantages of using XP in the first place. Stuart

thanks guys.. can i say one more thing.. this probibly is in the rong post but is thair any sorta chips or evan a new mother board that i can buy to make my pc real fast.. im not saying like lil system tweaks i mean like any hardware i can buy that might make my comp the bolloks speed wise.. thanks

I run a P3 1.3gig 133FSB, and it has out performed the newer Pentium 4's. I would stick with your pentium 3 and then slap a higher CPU in it. Depending on your memory, i would have atleast 256 installed. Here at my house we network off my P3 1.3 gig and we have 3 Pentium 3 450Mhz computers, and even the 450's run very fast. Depending on what your using the computer for you may need to upgrade and you may not need to upgrade any hardware.

Well it depends what you really want to do... I run a AMD 3200+@2.42Ghz with 1.5GB DDR@400Mhz and a 6 Level RAID 0 Array, but I do alot of work with various things.. and it runs the network here in my little corner of the world rather well. Again it depends what you want to do, we run alot of 2.0Ghz Celerons, with 256MB of RAM, and GeForce4 VGA cards, and they do well for network games. however.. if you want real speed.. and are willing to spend bank, then the AMD 3200+, on an MSI nForce2 400FSB, and 1GB of DDR would be well.. or an Intel P4@3.06Ghz with simalar things.. either way, the more you spend.. in the doctrine of capitolism you should get a faster PC. :S I am confuzed its.. early... leave me alone! :D haha ~Bob 8086 overclocked to 5.6THz 512 TB DDR RAM@333Ghz 250 Exabyte Serial Harddrive FIBER CHANNEL INFINI-BAND PCI-X HYPERTRANSPORT HYPERTHREADING I am making this up :D hahaha