Hi, Having just had a quick scoot about the 'net, looking at related "stuff" I'd have to concurr with the advice on not converting a FAT32 partition to NTFS, (the reasons are technical, but it'll slow you down) I'd also advise against compressing your NTFS (or any FS :) partition, (or encrpting it for that matter) as that will ad software overhead to the hardware overhead ad infinitum. I experimented with compressing my boot disk, (just to see what'd happen really :) what happened is it got a lot slower accessing the drive, though booting up seemed just as quick. "Here endeth the lesson" :) later jb