[Drifters]

Hi and welcome to the forum,

I would go with NTFS. You would have a more stable file system where in case one day you would want to do backups of it.

 

[Drifters]

Yes FAT32 is good but it has its limitations. If your are running Win2000 or higher I believe you could only have a harddrive the size of 32g. Anything higher is unusable. So if you are using the 80g harddrive with Win2000, you would need to use NTFS to use the entire drive.

 

[Drifters]

How many partitions do you have on your drive?

Because I am pretty sure you could only use 32g/partition.

 

[Drifters]

Also could you compress your drive in FAT32? And with what do you compress it with?

Because you cannot compress it with MS?

 

[Drifters]

We could debate over this forever and have no outcome. But Nazzawuzza here is an article that might be helpful for your decision.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q100108