Re: Hard drive

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You first, Richard. Third party is not needed.

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"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For all the "wonders" of NTFS, in my humble opinion a good 3rd part
> defragger such as Diskeeper is required. It can do a "boot-time" defrag
> which makes paging and MFT files contigous. i.e. they keep ending up all
> over the place if left to their own devices. It also clears enough room
> at the front of drives to consolodate directories as these also end up all
> over the place if left alone.
>
> I've had several PC's recently (each had quite a decent hardware spec.)
> that took several hours to defragment. (mostly because they'd never been
> defragmented)
>
> It seems to me that MS's NTFS defrag is a token gesture.
>
> http://www.digit-life.com/articles/ntfs/
> http://www.systweak.com/fat32/fat2.htm
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q121/5/17.asp&NoWebContent=1
> mmmm can't seem to get there with a
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=????????
> http://www.execsoft.co.uk/html/diskeeper/testimonial.htm
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
> "Kelly" <kelly@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> 1. Defrag really isn't needed within XP.
>> 2. I have done hundreds of conversions and all has been well. YMMV.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> --
>>
>> All the Best,
>> Kelly (MS-MVP)
>>
>> Troubleshooting Windows XP
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
>>
>>
>> "Downunder" <Downunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:EA8B487C-1109-42A7-AF0D-AF6AD18BB1CA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>I have a 40 gig hard drive partitioned into 2. C: drive is formatted in
>>>FAT32
>>> and D: drive is formatted in NTFS.
>>>
>>> I've read that defragging runs more quickly on NTFS.
>>>
>>> Therefore, if I convert the C: drive to NTFS is my data and applications
>>> safe? Will everything work the same if I convert it? Will I lose
>>> anything or
>>> will any of my programs stop working?
>>
>>
>
>


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