overwriting in FAT32?

Yeah coz thats what they want you to use, bloody micronazi, I'm gonna be reformatting my disks soon, will see how it goes for me, That other proggie worked well here though, course i did buy one of their hard drives, but I am sure it gave the option of formatting any disk.

lol, what was the original trouble, were your programs hanging too?
Did you have SP2 installed or at the very least all the updates up to SP1?
Could the troubles be a software conflict?
What's your system spec?

i'd agree that it sounds like a software thing, although how long is the missus on it for compared to you? We had a system that would crash if left on too long, turned out to be a faulty heatsink/chip installation, normally insufficient heatsink would kill the chip in seconds but this lasted over 6 months(only occasional use) and took about that long to show itself. best to get the chip installed at a PC shop where they press it in properly without any risk of damaging it, they'll also put on the heatsink and the fan.

as long as the processor has a fan and the PSU has a fan you'll do fine, most case fans are for decoration!

I hate XP - Never ever buy VERSION 1 of anything, especially when it comes from Microsoft.

I won't touch XP with a barge-pole.
If you've any sense, go buy a version of Windows 2000 Professional and use all available service packs to update it.

XP stinks.

TT

I said that before I got it TT, and having used NT and 2000 I know they were both stable to at least some degree and thought id never go for XP, I waited awhile and in end upgraded after SP1 was realsed, was a good move, never had any major problems, one or two things which I managed to sort out, still 2000 had to last some time as it's so widely used in buisness and isnt it on like SP6 now? lol

I've had this problem. Swapped everything & in the end found it was the MSI motherboard.

Never had any trouble with Asus though.