Hope To Hinder a little huh, Pengy! LOL! This an argument which will boil on for ever... ... basically are we not talking swings and roundabouts here? My input to this discussion... NT is designed around NTFS... NT File System. The FAT32 disk access code is tacked onto XP and doesn't always work properly. (Nice and specific, huh! It's been a long day!) I've found this while researching the problems PBooost sometimes has with FAT32 under XP. The plot thinkens... H:)