XP on FAT32

[Shawn N]

My machine came out of the box running on XP with FAT32. Its performance is unacceptable for a 2.4 Ghz machine. My 500mhz machine on XP Pro (running a SQL and IIS web server) runs much faster.

I'm wondering if converting to NTFS will help out the performance. Here's some more information on my machine that might be pertinent to the performance.

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* System Summary *
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Processor: GenuineIntel Family 15 Model 2 2.4 GHz Stepping 4
Math Support: Present
BIOS: AMIINT - 10, 09/05/02
Bus Type: PCI, ISA, USB
Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial
Memory: 224 MB (58% Utilized)
Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB
Hard Disks: 74.56 GB
Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM
Video: 1152 x 864 in 32-Bit Color, S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR Ver. 6.13

< Operating System >
Windows: 5.1 (Build 2600)
Net Clients:
Microsoft Windows Network
Microsoft Terminal Services
Web Client Network

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* Memory Report - Summary *
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< General Information >
Memory Utilization: 61%
Total Physical Memory: 224 MB (234881024 Bytes)
Available Physical Memory: 51.2 MB (53710848 Bytes)
Page File Capacity: 548 MB (574210048 Bytes)
Available Page File capacity: 298 MB (312524800 Bytes)


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* Drive Information Report *
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< Drive C >
Total space in drive: 77,940,097,024 bytes (72.59 GB)
Used space: 22,101,491,712 bytes (20.58 GB)
Available space: 55,838,605,312 bytes (52.00 GB)


[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Video: 1152 x 864 in 32-Bit Color, S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR Ver. 6.13

ROFLMAO!!! ^

Uhm, got SDRAM in there?

XP Home I'd bet. Ick.

What's slow about it?

You have UDMA enabled correct?

[JPicasso]

What brand?

Some brands will install proprietary "crap" which can cause slowness.
Do you have any other software running?

XP seems to be love or hate.

I hated the interface and some of the dumbing down, but
we have it on a sony Vaio laptop and it runs crazy fast.
Boot up and shutdown are both really fast. I"m sure that it is XP home and
have had no troubles with it. The speed won me over.


Switching to NTFS certainly couldn't do any harm.

[DiGiTaIErRoR]

Originally posted by JPicasso
What brand?

Some brands will install proprietary "crap" which can cause slowness.
Do you have any other software running?

XP seems to be love or hate.

I hated the interface and some of the dumbing down, but
we have it on a sony Vaio laptop and it runs crazy fast.
Boot up and shutdown are both really fast. I"m sure that it is XP home and
have had no troubles with it. The speed won me over.


Switching to NTFS certainly couldn't do any harm.

FYI: Win2k3 is faster.

[plenderj]

Switching to NTFS will take up disk space, and I believe it runs slower than FAT32. Just stick with that.

I would imagine its proprietary software that's been automatically installed.
Try doing a fresh install of Win XP Pro or Win 2K Pro...

[Admiral Michael]

NTFS has better filing menthod and runs better, however you will not be able to downgrade to 98 unless ur repartition and format, loosing everything.


I love NTFS and format all my drives at NTFS.

[plenderj]

Originally posted by Admiral Michael
NTFS has better filing menthod and runs better, however you will not be able to downgrade to 98 unless ur repartition and format, loosing everything.


I love NTFS and format all my drives at NTFS.

NTFS has slower file enumeration - and stores information most users would never need about files. Security information etc.

FAT32 to NTFS conversion also consumes a considerable amount of disk space...

[Pirate]

NTFS has more advantages over FAT32 one of them is security ,file compression..etc, I believe it's quite faster than FAT32 . You can do the conversion easily by typing this command :

convert driveletter: /fs:ntfs *but* you have to backup your system first just in case things go wrong . I did this many times on W2K , and nothing bad happened .

[wrack]

I have all my drives running NTFS except a basic 2 GB partition which is an active partition and it has FAT32.

Just incase I need to boot from floppy and do something.

[Shawn N]

I did a full error check on the disk and now its running a little better. Considering that I've had this computer only a couple of months, it's way too soon for performance to be lagged like this.

I think I'll eventually try a clean install, run that for a while, and if that still runs like ****, I'll convert to NTFS and see how it goes from there.

Thanks all.

[wrack]

If it's any other problem like app problem then u wont see any imidiate result.

[Shawn N]

Originally posted by wrack
If it's any other problem like app problem then u wont see any imidiate result.

I don't understand what you're saying.

[wrack]

All I am saying is if ur problem of bad performance exists not because of FAT32 or NTFS but something else then you are far from solving it and you wont see any result out of it now.

But on the bright side u can have security as NTFS supprots it now.