OS War !!!

[rop37111]

I'm about to format my hard-drive.
Whitch OS should I use for the best performace and stability?
Win 98 SE, Win ME, Win 2000 with NTFS or Win XP?
Please share your expirience and knolege with me.
Thanks for your advise.

[Mirror_Image]

Forget about the first two, and focus on 2000 or XP. The NTFS file system eliminated the pesky 4GB file size limit of FAT32, making it a much better choice for video capture and editing.

[rop37111]

Thank you Mirror_Image.
But from Win 2k NTFS and Win XP, whitch is the best?
Does XP suport NTFS?
Whitch one is faster, stable?
What about drivers for 'old' products?
I have a Epson Stylus Color (great, economic, but old),
a Epson Stylus Photo 890, a Epson Film Scan 200 (Epson doesn't mentioned it now), a Adaptec 29xx scsi card, a ATI rage fury pro, a HP 2200 scanner, a old Creative 128 pci, a HP 9100i CD writer, a Zoltrix modem, a Zoltrix TV turner, whell most of this equipment came with 95/98 drivers and are discontinued but I need them to work.
Any advise?
Can you help me?

[Mirror_Image]

http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp

Either OS supports NTFS.

[Faustus]

2k is a great and super stable OS, but in some cases does not have great driver support for some of the more obscure products out there. XP's driver support is just not actually really ramping up but in the end XP is the future of MS OSs. I'm running XP and as long as you have a decent machine its a great OS, previous to that I was running 2k.

I would also highly suggest MacOSX but I doubt your hardware will run that