Ext3 and a small partition with compat progs (Score 1)

I have a 1TB external WD USB HDD, with most of the space allocated to an ext3 partition, and a tiny fat32 partition ( ~ 1GB) where I stored some small free windows programs (and instructions) that enable any windows user to see and use the larger ext3 partition. I prefer ext3 to ntfs or fat32, because ext3 is way much faster, and because I like to be consistent with things that I use. I also have a SD card (8GB) preformatted to fat32 (I think) that came with my digital camera, and there's nothing I can change about it, without risking to make it unusable with the camera.