I read somewhere (might be urban legend) that for best performance (in XP) you should use ntsf for program files and fat32 for data.
I doubt it has any negative effects on Hoster. I think that's what my external drive for my laptop is but I'd have to check to besure of that. I think you'll find your usb memory sticks are fat32.
The only way to change fat32 to ntsf is to reformat, no way around it.
Sam
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