[Thinkpad] T43

[David Ross]

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> Time to join the modern world, Jeffery.  The T-43 is just too perfect
a tool
> for you to not use it in its best format.

Without getting into an OT war on this, there are certainly some valid
reasons to prefer Fat32 on a partition instead of NTFS.  I had a series
of system crashes with NTFS systems a couple of years ago (on 2
different machines), and system attempts to automatically repair the
directory structure munged everything so badly that none of my recovery
utilities could do anything.  I now keep the main Windows partition
small and FAT32, and the remainder of the system NTFS - this gives me
the security and random-access-speed advantages of NTFS, and the
simplicity of FAT32 for basic system stuff (as well as a platform for
multi-booting into DOS to run some very old software I need that will
not run in a DOS window).  FAT32 is also a tad more efficient for very
large contiguous files.

Most aftermarket drive management software will let you do a live
NTFS->FAT32 conversion.  I used Paragon for mine.

DR