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yes exactly. i follow most of these practices to make recovery of data streamlined. first of two partitions like described above. one thing that i do different is i have a personalized version of nlite and its set to install unattended so i can go eat meanwhile. second off once i have a fresh install of windows i install all my programs and adjust most of the programs settings to my prefrerences. then i use acronis back suite to make an image of my C drive. that way if i need ot install windows again i simply go from the image and not anything else.oh and ntfs is definitely better. first of fat32 can't handle any single file being bigger than 4gb. some movies and files pass that. ie iso rips, so on. also when you soemtimes have to manually shut off your computer sometimes the fat32 table can become corrupt and thus you get those pieces and parts. i've read an article somewhere and i dont remember where, but it clearly stated that NTFS was built to withstand file system corruptions like from that type of scenario. and over the years i've never lost a filesystem as ntfs.however the only good thing now that fat32 is used for is a common drive between linux and windows. this is because both natively can read AND write to them. although it seems linux is able to write to NTFS now. however fat32 is a sure fire file system for two OS's.