MYself and one of the other users are having a dispute on the best OS for Burning DVD's with

So we put it to the polls

Take into account performance, stability, compatability.

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Gotta be XP for me (professional), i hate 2000 with a passion. It could be 98se for me but as it dont support NTFS thats out of the question.

I can see a lot of votes for XP

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I have to agree XPis my fav for burning DVD's

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Not that OS is even an issue (NTFS issue aside)

I would be more concerned with which writer/media combination i was using.

I have copied DVD-R/CD-R on all of my partitions (XP, Win 9X, 2000 and Linux 9) I don't understand what your point is!! (no offense)
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no offence taken the point was that another user was preaching that ME was far better for burning DVD's as he claims FAT is much better faster and more stable than NTFS. Burner and sofware asside assume everyone is using Pionner 105 (no offence SP4M as I know ud prefer the sony ) with say Nero 5.5.10.35

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Fat doesn't support file sizes greater than 4gig so yer mate is talking out of his.. anyway don't think it's gonna make much of a difference as long as it's the NTFS file system...

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UMMM suvvv im using a fat 32 system and can burn dvds over 4 gig and i aint had no probs so i dont know where this myth of fat 32 comes from,most probably the same person that said bulkpac was a quality media by the way im using it with windows 2000 pro and dvd decrypter,nero,stomp

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No one said that you cant burn dvd's over 4 gig,It's actual single files with a size of over 4 gig that fat 32 cannot handle.

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with fat 32 if you have a ps2 image of say 4.3GB, the file gets split in 2.

So no big deal there really.

I use Windows XP Professional but I have to say that there is no operating system I prefer. They pretty much all suck. Each having their own pros and cons.

I don't think operating system is really all that relevant to the success of dvd writing. Much more imortant things are the cables you use, your system configuration, (ie. never put a pioneer 105 as slave to a hard drive... trust me,) your hard drive buffer size, the software you use...

All in all, OS is not that relevant.
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Most movies are over 4 gigs ps2 games are and a few other things are but they all seem to work with fat 32 so i still cant work out where this you cant burn a dvd with fat 32 came from as it dont support over 4 gigs so can anyone shed some light or was it just someone talking through his a*** after a few carlings

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yes you can burn images with fat32.

the file just gets split in 2 when it is stored on your hard drive. but the writing software burns it as if it were just one big file.

so it's not really an issue.
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XP DONT WORK FOR ME.....
THE SYSTEM IS SOOOO UNSTABLE....... ITS BACK TO 98................
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XP is fine, it will be one or more of your hardware components which is ill configured or is using unstable older drivers.
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sp4m... m8 u may be right..... but trying to reslove the problem.... eats into a lot of time... and like u say it could be any number of drivers... it could be any one of the 8 hard disks... or ne 1 the 4 raid cards.... or even ne 1 of the 5 burners.... it could be ne thing...... so i've just gone back to, wot works best for me......

my theory is that, the system, under xp just gets too hot....... but who knows............
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my theory is that maybe you should buy a new case or two and perhaps split your system up into a couple or more systems
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