I´ve got an old PC (about 5 years) and running MS Win XP Pro. It runs with to seprate HD with 2 partitions on one and 3 on the other.  I´ve now (finally) gotten around to formating my primary drive (C:), but when formating through windows, I´m not able chose FAT32. I can only FORMAT in NTFS!?

It should be noted, that I´m currently running FAT32 on all my drives, and can´t find a good reason for switchin to NTFS.

Should I just boot with DOS, and do it "the hard way", or does ANYONE got any good sugestions?XP will only let you format drives of less than 32 Gb to FAT 32. I use all NTFS drives and NTFS is recommended for drives over 32 Gb.

If you WANT to use a C: drive formatted to FAT32 then make it smaller with a partition resizer. I use the one which comes with BootIT NG. (You don't need to install BootIT NG so just cancel the install screens and go to the Partition Work button.)

NTFS is usually more stable for large drives. If you have a swap partition somewhere and if you make it 2·0 Gb you can format it to FAT16 which is thought to be faster.

See www.ntfs.com for more and take a LONG read of www.pcguide.com for a complete detailing of file systems.Thanks for the help :-)My pleasure.