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Thread ID: 48005	2004-08-11 12:25:00	Partition Magic lost its spell	Supertrooper (2510)	Press F1

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260606	2004-08-12 13:24:00	Elephant, you should run PCMark04 on that thing and do some hard disk tests with the partition as Fat32 and again when you converted to NTFS. I think you'll notice some rather signigficant performance increase.	kiki (762)
260607	2004-08-12 13:58:00	> Elephant, you should run PCMark04 on that thing and > do some hard disk tests with the partition as Fat32 > and again when you converted to NTFS. I think you'll > notice some rather signigficant performance increase. First of all I use my computer the way I want to. My main issue is to backup and restore and/or recover files in the event one hard drive failed. From time to time I change things here so I have checked things out before I try to give advise to people here on this forum. Now I run a Soltek Motherboard with an AMD3200+ CPU and 1 Gig of DDR Ram. I have an AGP Video card (FX5700). I am not planning on getting Doom3 anytime soon. As far as games are concerned I use MS crimson skies, Links 2001, Flight Sim 2004 and chessmaster. The monitor I have is a Philps 140 B4. All this works for me. You don't see me posting here asking for help very often. As I remember it I did ask for help once for Linux drivers for a Buffalo Wireless adapter and got no replies whatsoever. I could have been on the Gin that night maybe? I see no performance increase here having used FAT32 and changed to NTFS and back again. Benchmarks in my opinion do not help the average user. I will say that the NTFS file system is more secure than the FAT32 system. Then do I turn indexing on or off? Do I encrypt folders or directories? I will not tell you how to run your hardware.	Elephant (599)
260608	2004-08-12 14:21:00	> First of all I use my computer the way I want to. Surely the Pro's and Con's of different file allocation tables can be discussed without you taking it personally and being so paranoid and deluded that you think others are trying to force you to reconfigure your POS to their views. > I see no performance increase here having used FAT32 and changed to NTFS and back again. > Benchmarks in my opinion do not help the average user. > I will say that the NTFS file system is more secure than the FAT32 system. Then do I turn indexing on or off? Do I encrypt folders or directories? > I will not tell you how to run your hardware. It is well documented that the benefits of NTFS far outperform FAT32 as far as security, performance, file size, partition size, error recovery and allocated space are concerned. Your opinion doesn't change these facts. If you care nothing for performance in your machine, then don't bother sharing your inferior advice with others so that they might run their machine as a POS from the days of WinME.	kiki (762)
260609	2004-08-13 12:09:00	So are you suggesting I reconvert from FAT32 back to NTFS? If so then why? It's all about the allocation unit size (Cluster, I believe). With FAT32, as you increase the size of the drive, you increase the size of the cluster. With NTFS, it's always the same no matter the size of the drive. Clusters are important because if you store a, say, 1 byte file in a 4KB cluster, you will lose the whole cluster of space. So 1 byte is infact 4KB on the disk. After 2 GB, FAT16 is useless. After about 8 GB, FAT32 is useless - this is because the cluster sizes get ridiculously large. So use NTFS on large drives - it saves space, has more security options, can be more easily manipulated and is an all round good guy.	Growly (6)
260610	2004-08-14 08:54:00	I have just converted my XP partition 10gig from Fat 32 to NTFS with Partition Magic 8. It booted to "Dos" and scanned the partition then converted it. Took about 5 minutes max. Everything works, it will be interesting to see if there is any difference in performance ;) I have not converted the other partitions as it is multi booted with ME, 98 and Xandros. Partition Magig 8 is very fast, partitioned a 38gig Maxtor drive in about 8 minutes. I made a PQ Drive Image of the original partition first.	Mzee (158)
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