Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Replacing FAT32 to NTFS
Name: richfer Date: July 27, 2003 at 23:16:56 Pacific OS: Win Xp CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2000+/ 256 DDR
Comment:
I have just converted my FAT32 partitions into NTFS and have noticed my booting speed decrease. It takes far longer time now (45 secs) than before (27 secs). I have performed a Diskeeper defrag of all my drives. I have disabled several services, yet the speed has not come anywhere close to what it used to before i converted it. I have four partitions of approx 5GB (its a 20GB disk).
Name: akaironman Date: July 27, 2003 at 23:41:24 Pacific
Reply:
it is most likely slower. NTFS is know to run slower than fat32
0
Response Number 2
Name: richfer Date: July 28, 2003 at 00:39:36 Pacific
Reply:
No its not that it works slow after booting. It works quite ok. Memory management is also great. Only issues are with booting speed. That apart all seems hunky dory.
0
Response Number 3
Name: Dave Date: July 28, 2003 at 09:56:16 Pacific
Reply:
hmmm, not sure if this has anything to do with it but, If you create an NTFS partition from scratch the cluster size will be 4k. When you convert FAT32 to NTFS, the cluster size will be 512k making it less effecient.
Summary: I'm in the same boat as Danny (just read his post) and I did try the CMD prompt to convert from Fat32 to NTFS, but this is what I get "Convert cannot run because the volume is in use by another proce...
Summary: im trying to conver a second hard drive from fat32 to ntfs but after it does some scanning on the drive it tells me that the driver can not be converted cause it has some inconsistencies, please run ...
0 
