Good-bye Icey. I'm impressed that you stayed around this long, and I am hopeful that your original question was fully answered.
As for Gary and myself, we are indeed ol' rag chewers, although I concede that Gary is much better at it than am I. I'm the guy with the insatiable curiosity and a limited amount of knowledge about many things. For example, I know that Gary has captured the essence of the FAT file system which has been abandoned when 3 1/4" floppy disks bit the dust. Every operating system that caters to personal computing these days still supports the FAT format, and that includes Gary's favorite, Linux. But, around the time when Microsoft's Windows 9x series of operating systems lost popularity, the file system of choice became NTFS. NTFS uses a B+ tree to keep track of things instead of the allocation tables found in obsolete disk formats. That's about the extent of what I know. Perhaps my rag chewing friend could enlighten us on the pros and cons of FAT and NTFS. Curious minds want to know.