| [XP] Win XP Pro slow to defrag FAT32? I have a dual boot Win 98 SE/Win XP Pro system.
When I run Diskeeper 8 Pro in Win XP Pro to defrag a FAT 32 system, it takes 10 minutes just to analyze the drive and forever to defrag it.
When I run Diskeeper 8 Pro in Win 98 SE it takes 30 seconds to analyze the drive and 10 seconds to defrag it.
Does anybody else find that defragging FAT32 drives is slow under Win XP Pro? |
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| I've not seen this problem. Although the only FAT32 drive I've defragged is my External HDD, don't know if that makes a difference or not. Also, my External HDD basically contains data files, no software installed (other than the standard Iomega stuff that came with the drive).
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join:2003-03-04
Birmingham, AL | reply to Gundam_MX
Just curious, why do U use Fat32 for XP? |
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| He does it to maintain `communication` between both OS`s.
A FAT32 partition cannot read a NTFS partition - hence he has chosen to install XP as a FAT32 partition.
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Regards, Paul Smith - pauls109@gotadsl.co.uk |
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