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I recently switched from win98 2nd ed. with Windows optimized FAT32 to NT4
SP5 for TS4. Everything is great except disk access is very slow -- pages
take much longer to load. I am wondering if it has something to do with
partition types -- curious what others feel are the most efficient.
Currently have NT and TS on a 4 gig FAT16 partition (64 K clusters) IDE.
Not interested in switching to SCSI -- just looking to get closer to what I
had before. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on any of the following?
1. Would going to smaller partitions with smaller clusters increase speed?
2. Would putting TS on a FAT32 partition (using the Winternals FAT32 driver)
increase speed?
2a. Could the FAT32 driver be slowing things down?
3. Is NTFS faster than FAT16 -- I have heard conflicting reports?
4. Would there be any significant speed increase by putting TS on a similar
2nd physical drive?
5. Running all partitions as FAT32 except for NT seems a logical choice,
except that you cannot defrag the FAT32 partitions without going into 95/98.
Anyone know of a way to defrag a FAT32 disk from a DOS floppy or someway
without having a whole OS just for that purpose?
5a. Any recommendations for NT defrag utilities in general?
I realize a this issue goes away with NT2000, but I figure they need 6-12 mo
for others to find the bugs before I jump in. Any advice would be
appreciated.
Regards,
Chris Cheatham
(reply to nchrisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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