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| Thread ID: 76515 | 2007-02-03 10:09:00 | Laptop slows down after FAT32 to NTFS conversion? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 522223 | 2007-02-03 10:09:00 | Dear all, after acquiring an ASUS Z92T laptop from DSE and installing several programs onto drive C:, I realised that the HDD format was FAT32. So I took advantage of a HDD-format conversion feature provided by the laptop to change it to NTFS. However, after the operation has been executed and having the laptop restarted, I realised that the laptop has taken up significantly longer time to startup; I have tried defragmenting the HDD using Diskeeper 9, but to no avail. I have also tried tinkering around with the startup programs and services, but the speed did not improve. It would be good if someone can help me out with this. Thanks! Cheers :) P.S. I haven't tried malware-scanning yet, but I doubt the fault lies within there. [edit] The laptop comes with 1 GB of RAM. |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 522224 | 2007-02-03 10:19:00 | At this stage I doubt you have got malware problems unless you have been browsing online with no antivirus installed. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 522225 | 2007-02-03 10:26:00 | Maybe you should try to restore it using the restore CD. | bk T (215) | ||
| 522226 | 2007-02-03 10:37:00 | Maybe you should try to restore it using the restore CD. Restore, as in? winmacguy, I will scan the laptop for malware anyway some time later. G'night guys. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 522227 | 2007-02-03 15:48:00 | restore as in: restore it to factory settings seeing as u dont have much on there yet. it should have a recovery partition if it didn't come with a windows/mac cd. |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 522228 | 2007-02-03 19:08:00 | I realised that the HDD format was FAT32 . So I took advantage of a HDD-format conversion feature provided by the laptop to change it to NTFS . Why? Performance On volumes that are created (not converted) as NTFS volumes, clusters start at sector zero, therefore every cluster is aligned on what is known as the cluster boundary . If the FAT32 partition was not created by Windows XP or Windows 2000, the FAT/FAT32 reserved structures mean that a FAT/FAT32 format cannot guarantee that data clusters will be aligned on a cluster boundary . In turn, this can cause the conversion process to be forced to use 512k clusters, thus causing a potentially serious degradation in disk performance . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 522229 | 2007-02-03 22:54:00 | Try a Repair (as opposed to a Restore). | Greg (193) | ||
| 522230 | 2007-02-04 01:09:00 | Try a Repair (as opposed to a Restore). or, try to revert the HDD format back to FAT32. i don't think you can reformat doing a repair, so considering pctek's comments i'd say a complete reformat and reinstall is the answer here |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 522231 | 2007-02-04 03:10:00 | or, try to revert the HDD format back to FAT32. i don't think you can reformat doing a repair, so considering pctek's comments i'd say a complete reformat and reinstall is the answer hereIIRC a conversion to NTFS is irreversible. The only way to get it back to FAT32 is to reformat the drive. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 522232 | 2007-02-04 03:15:00 | IIRC a conversion to NTFS is irreversible. The only way to get it back to FAT32 is to reformat the drive. well i did say 'try' |
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