Although the disk systems described in the preceding section are interesting, especially to power users and system administrators who have multiple drives available, most Windows 2000 users will end up setting up their systems with standard partitions and the NTFS file format. But what about other file systems? How should you organize multiple disks? What about preparing your disks, and what kinds of strategies should you consider?
If you're not going to stick with the straight and narrow of running only NTFS on your hard disk, consider these alternative strategies and rules to follow: