markt005
February 11th 07, 02:58 AM
I recently used a recovery disk that came with my laptop, which restores it
to the default state. It automatically formats the drive to FAT32, however,
and I would like to make it NTFS. It's my understanding though that if you
just convert it, it uses default cluster sizes of 512 bytes, however 4096
bytes makes it perform better. It says on on Micrsoft's web site that if you
just convert a drive to NTFS it will run slower than if you format it that
wayin the first place.
So I think a better way than converting might be to use an external hard
drive and copy all of the files on drive C: to it, then format the C drive to
NTFS, and then copy all of the files back (I can use a startup disk to do
this) Will that work? Is there are disadvantage to that?
I guess my question revolves around whether you can copy all the files on a
hard drive (where windows is installed) and then just copy them back.
to the default state. It automatically formats the drive to FAT32, however,
and I would like to make it NTFS. It's my understanding though that if you
just convert it, it uses default cluster sizes of 512 bytes, however 4096
bytes makes it perform better. It says on on Micrsoft's web site that if you
just convert a drive to NTFS it will run slower than if you format it that
wayin the first place.
So I think a better way than converting might be to use an external hard
drive and copy all of the files on drive C: to it, then format the C drive to
NTFS, and then copy all of the files back (I can use a startup disk to do
this) Will that work? Is there are disadvantage to that?
I guess my question revolves around whether you can copy all the files on a
hard drive (where windows is installed) and then just copy them back.