I know that the Win 98 & back versions of windows all have a wierd filing system, where they scatter bits of the file all over the hd, and link them back to file (or so i've been told). I did some research before posting and all the official websites i've been to have said windows switched over to a FAT32 filing system for win2k and after (or so M$ said). What I want to know, is the supposedly new filing system more efficient (as in it actually stores the entire file together on the hdd), or is it the same? Is it even possible now to fix this because of the nature of hdds?

I already searched google for this, and i couldn't find anything other than vague answers. Of course, I'm just a newbie, so everyone but me could know the answer. I also want to know if Linux had this inefficiency in the past or stil does.

thanx for your time, guys! flame me for stupidity if you need to!