does the type of filesystem matter?

it has been a while since I have installed WinXP so I don't recall if there is still the option of speicifying whether to use FAT or NTFS. If the option is still available which option works best as far recording with AA 2.0.?

thanks in advance

There is no reason to consider using FAT32 on a disk - it's non-resilient and inefficient.  In any case, XP limits it to 32GB partitions*, which doesn't go far on modern disks.

Paul

* it won't create FAT32 partitions larger than this, but will handle them if formatted elsewhere.

yeah - what he said.

There is no reason to consider using FAT32 on a disk -

For a windows system disk, yes. But if you were formatting an external drive you might consider FAT32 for compatibility with other operating systems that don't fully support NTFS - OSX, Linux, and even older versions of windows... I have an old iBook (ducks and runs for cover...) laptop that's sometimes used with my external USB drive for location recording.