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| 609918 | 2007-11-09 19:25:00 | My sun has a laptop running XP home it is an Acer Aspire 3003LC, it is running 768Mb of RAM. It is running very slow and a defrag of each drive partition takes over an hour. I noticed it is FAT32 file format. My questions are is the file format slowing it down? can I change the second partition to NTFS. I know how to do this just want to make sure the OS will still read it if I leave the first partition as FAT32. Secondly since it only came with recovery CD's can I do an install from another XP disc and use the license from the laptop and not the one on the CD as that has already been used and how would I back up the drivers first? Thanks in advance :badpc: |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 609919 | 2007-11-09 19:49:00 | Its probably full of spyware. Did you check? And remove unecessary startup items, ditch Nortons. You can convert it to NTFS but that won't cure your problem. As ffor doing a reinstall, thats what the recovery is for - it includes Windows and all the drivers. Just use that if you need to. But I'd be checking for malware first. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 609920 | 2007-11-09 20:04:00 | Yeah you can change the operating system partition to NTFS and leave the other as FAT32, but you might as well change both. | Greg (193) | ||
| 609921 | 2007-11-09 20:05:00 | Has the laptop always been slow or only recently slowed down? If the latter, then like pctek says, it's probably got malware. Give it a good cleanup before mucking around changing the file format. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 609922 | 2007-11-09 20:29:00 | FAT32 is very simple and is useful for low processor power devices such as MP3 players, cameras and the original computers it was designed for. NTFS is a modern filesystem and will massively outperform FAT32 for some tasks. Anything which manipulates large files risks fragmentation and this can cause severe performance problems for particular usage patterns. With NTFS you will not need to defragment as it does not have the same performance issues (it uses indices instead of linked lists for locating file pieces). | TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 609923 | 2007-11-09 23:26:00 | Running Windows XP on FAT32 is like a horse-drawn Ferrari. It has the potential, but can't do it. (Security mostly though.) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 609924 | 2007-11-10 02:49:00 | There is no reason anyone should be using FAT32 when it comes to computers hard disk file systems anymore! Maybe for a USB Flash Disk! but certainly not for your HDD! But like the others said, your slowdown it probably due to alot of malware/trojan infections and clattered up registry. Get the following and run a clean-up: 1) Ad-Aware or Spybot Search and Destroy 2) RegScrubXP (To clean those reisry error) 3) Defragment your hard disk 4) Download a small utility called AUTORUNS and stop anthing you don't need from starting up with the system like special imaging applications or anything u feel not useful, do not play with system files that you're not sure of though |
MaXimus (13013) | ||
| 609925 | 2007-11-10 04:28:00 | There is no reason anyone should be using FAT32 when it comes to computers hard disk file systems anymore! Having listened to all this hype, let me mention I run my hard drive in FAT32. There is one thing I can't do and thats have a file larger than 4GB. Never needed one so far. I like DOS. The original DOS. DOS is not possible on an NTFS file system. To have it installed that is. And nope, my PC runs a whole lot faster than a lot of NTFS shotboxes I see everyday. Nor does it need defragging. I thought I'd give it one the other day seeing as it hasn't had one since its build. It found bugger all to do. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 609926 | 2007-11-10 10:04:00 | I hafta say that if you dont need the security or the large file support why you would want to have NTFS over FAT32, for the average desktop user that is. There's precious little noticable difference, and Ive played with REAL performance filesystems like Reiser4 :D And yes, NTFS still needs defragging! IF your PCs going slow, dont blame the file-system, ever :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 609927 | 2007-11-10 18:43:00 | I like DOS. The original DOS. DOS is not possible on an NTFS file system. To have it installed that is. Why can't you install it on a virtual machine? :illogical |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
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