Re: changing FAT32 to NTFS

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Best to start afresh if possible- Don't forget that convert yields 512 byte
clusters- Not very inspiring as far as disk fragmentation is concerned (very
low wastage though :-) A clean format that will yield 4k clusters. Also,
anything more than 4k shouldn't be used if NTFS compression is to work with
the drive. 4k is the sweet spot.


"Rock" <rock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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arvind wrote:

i've win xp installed in FAT32 file system on my home PC which i use
mainly for internet, Office applications and games. will it be worthwhile
to change over to NTFS; if so, how's it to be done. i want to avoid
formatting my hard drive for that. thanks. arvind

Make sure you have a full and complete backup before doing the conversion.
Things can go wrong as a recent poster found out. After he did the
conversion, though I don't know how he did it, the system would not boot.
So always, always have a full backup and be prepared to reinstall if
things go wrong. Usually it works fine but things do happen.

--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User



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