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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
win2k has some major flaws for the corporate environment... any user account can grab system privileges in about 2 minutes, and from there escalate to local admin. go with XP, you can get a cheep copy of pro for $140 or less.
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I may have misunderstood, I didn't think we were diagnosing for a corporate environment. And for home use, Win 2k works just fine. It's less demanding than XP, so for a slower PC would probably be the better option.
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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
the utility i recommended is virtually flawless, it's not some hack job, the people over at sysinternals do quality work, so good i used there utilities over Microsoft's on a daily basis, so good, Microsoft bought them out. hell it uses the same driver the nt kernel uses.
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Sysinternals is good software, yes. But it would probably be easier just to work in FAT32, since every Windows version but 95 OSR1 and NT 4.0 can read it natively. The only time I'd foresee the file size limitation being an issue is if you're storing DVD images. At least, I know that's the only time I've ever encountered a 4GiB file; and even then, you could always break it down into a spanned archive.
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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
back to the original problem at hand, just partition the drive in to many fat32 partitions, it will be messy but it will work just fine.
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I fail to see why this is necessary. FAT 16 was limited to a 2GiB volume size in most cases, but FAT 32 has an allocation table orders of magnitude larger and can support volume sizes up into the TiB range. I believe Jimellow's issue was with the 4GiB filesize limitation, which would be an issue with exceptionally large files. However, just about any off the shelf archiving program is capable of creating spanned archives these days, which means if the drive is only being used for back-up storage there's a simple work-around.