Fat32-xp

[Job]

Any real tech heads out there?

Bought new disk and formatted it in that new NFTS whatever thingy, my old disk was FAT32, just copied the whole directory onto the new disk, works fine except, when using file explorer on the new directory it chugs away for 20 seconds to display the files, also when it does file check at login same slow access speed,
is there a problem putting directories made it FAT32 on a NFTS disk?

 

[frogster]

Nope, the file allocation table is just that. How the files are stored on the hard disk. The files themselves are indentical.

 

[frogster]

Have you just upgraded to XP? Try turning off indexing. This speeds up access to directories with a large amount of files in them.

 

[frogster]

Ah knew i had it somewhere :

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak123951.aspx

 

[Grimmen]

is there a problem putting directories made it FAT32 on a NFTS disk?

Nope, they are converted to NTFS. I would also advice to check file indexing, it can really cause some hickups if your computer are busy otherwise use the standards as scan the disc and defrag it.

 

[Job]

Thnks Frog, yup switched off indexing ..no luck, switched back on and it runs like a dream.