Re: pagefile FAT32 or NTFS

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/02/05


Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:25:36 -0500

Hi,

No gotcha's - use FAT32 as performance may be marginally better with the
small drive.

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"Larry(LJL269)" <NO@EMAIL.COM> wrote in message 
news:o97gt01ktb1kg14a707juo6vpjdp0b7fan@4ax.com...
>I have the luxury of putting my pagefile on a 1GB drive
> all by itself.  I can format that in either FAT32 or
> NTFS. This will be my first NTFS partition and I'm not
> sure if the advantages of NTFS are applicable to the
> pagefile.
>
> Any Catch-22's or Gotcha's?
>
> Comments/suggestions/corrections appreciated.
> Thanks- bye- Larry
>
> Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can 
> only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK. 


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