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I'd suggest NTFS. It's more reliable, and generally faster. As far as partitioning, if you only have one OS installed on the drive I'd use a single partition. If you use more than one they will all be using the same drive with the same set of heads on the disk anyway, so there will be no efficiency gained by spreading things across multiple virtual disks. I'd choose XP over Win2k. You'll have enough RAM for the additional bloatware that comes with XP and I've had fewer problems with XP than with 2k.