Re: Switching fat32 to NTFS and Back Again

All Things Mopar wrote:

Partition Magic 8 failed on both my extended partitions to
convert from NTFS back to FAT32, which I wanted to do for
performance reasons (yes, and it /did/ improve it immensely!).


How large were these partitions? How much was "immensely"? How did you
measure the speed increase?

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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