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Originally posted by drizzt81 There is a FAT32-NTFS conversion tool in winXP, but i am not sure if it works on the system partition.

that tool is shite, it sets the cluster size to the lowest size possible (cant remember wot it is) thus lowering performance

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds that tool is shite, it sets the cluster size to the lowest size possible (cant remember wot it is) thus lowering performance

size: 512bytes, methinks

and why would small cluster size reduce performance, if your files are not fragmented?

it will improve space efficiency

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i cant remember the main points the artical made but i remember is said that a 4k cluster size is the prefered size, ill try and find the article where i saw this

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds i cant remember the main points the artical made but i remember is said that a 4k cluster size is the prefered size, ill try and find the article where i saw this

probably related to the entries in the MFT being 4K in size, for all i know

http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-mft.htm

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hmm..good link...

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I am almost certain that in Windows XP Professional Edition you can format a drive to NTFS without losing any data. I don't think this is supposed to be quite as effective as formatting 'from scratch', but I can't see it being much worse.

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Originally posted by MaRt I am almost certain that in Windows XP Professional Edition you can format a drive to NTFS without losing any data. I don't think this is supposed to be quite as effective as formatting 'from scratch', but I can't see it being much worse.

i think u are talking about teh tool that MDMA and I mentioned earlier

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Just reformat. Install your OS (XP) on your faster drive (set as master), and don't partition at all. Your second drive, set it as slave, and use it as a multimedia storage drive. This can reduce fragmentation on your main drive (although you can't prevent it, especially with page filing... that is unless you disable page filing, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you have at least 1Gig or RAM). Do NTFS for sure on both drives.