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Disk activity after convert.exe
Name: synapse Date: June 21, 2005 at 23:12:59 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon XP2400 / 768 DDR
Comment:
I have just converted an 80 gig IDE drive from FAT32 to NTFS to match the other 2 drives on my PC. This was done using the convert.exe command in Win XP Pro and the drive holds the OS. Now each time I start my PC there is a huge amount of disk activity and it's agood two minutes before I can get to a usable windows desktop. I have defragged the drive several times and all non useful services have been switched off. Anyone have any ideas how I can resolve this?
Name: Hungarian Boxer Date: June 21, 2005 at 23:20:01 Pacific
Reply:
You should have formatted before converting it to NTFS. Enter BIOS and make sure the the computer is booting up the hard-drive with windows first cause if it isn't it would be scanning each drive before it gets to the one with windows.
Hope this helps.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: June 22, 2005 at 05:39:17 Pacific
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,,,to match the other 2 drives on my PC.
??
i_XpUser
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Response Number 3
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: June 22, 2005 at 05:54:45 Pacific
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Hi XpUser,
WHEW! I thought it was just me.
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: June 22, 2005 at 06:04:03 Pacific
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Hi Mechanix,
It's 9 AM here in NY. What time is it in your location?
Anyway this is a strange thread - why does one need to convert FS to match the other partition FS?
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: June 22, 2005 at 06:24:29 Pacific
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Hi XpU,
20:24 here in time zone +7
M2
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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Response Number 6
Name: synapse Date: June 22, 2005 at 10:26:47 Pacific
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No, three drives, 1 SATA and 2 PATA of which one holds the OS. I wanted to have all three drives on the same file system (NTFS)- what is hard to understand.....?
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Response Number 7
Name: jefro Date: June 22, 2005 at 15:25:58 Pacific
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Look at drive properties. Maybe you have to disable cache on drive as it conflicts with hd cache or device cache.
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