Defrag is very slow.

[Gerry Cornell]

Bill

I dual booted Windows 98 and Windows XP for a time. After not too long
I dropped Windows 98 as I found the only time I booted to Windows 98
was to test something out to answer a Windows 98 question in a
newsgroup. Dual booting can be a lot of hassle for little reward. A
bit of effort converting some tasks to be carried out in Windows XP
pays dividends if it leaves you without the hassle of switching from
one operating system to another.

I still wouldn't bother with Norton for the sake of speeding
defragmenting. Let it run whilst you are doing a non-computer related
task.

This newsgroup is a fraction of the size it was. Give it 2 years and
it will be half what it is now. There are a number of other XP
newsgroups but only Help and Support approachs the size of this
newsgroup. Sub-division would hasten it's decline.

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Regards.

Gerry
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[Bill Watt]

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Bill

I dual booted Windows 98 and Windows XP for a time. After not too long
I dropped Windows 98 as I found the only time I booted to Windows 98
was to test something out to answer a Windows 98 question in a
newsgroup. Dual booting can be a lot of hassle for little reward. A
bit of effort converting some tasks to be carried out in Windows XP
pays dividends if it leaves you without the hassle of switching from
one operating system to another.

I still wouldn't bother with Norton for the sake of speeding
defragmenting. Let it run whilst you are doing a non-computer related
task.

That's what I've been doing, seems like the way to go. I would like
to change the cluster size to 32k though.

This newsgroup is a fraction of the size it was. Give it 2 years and
it will be half what it is now. There are a number of other XP
newsgroups but only Help and Support approachs the size of this
newsgroup. Sub-division would hasten it's decline.

There are about 45,000 posts to go through when downloading headers,
that's a lot even on cable.

The XP Notebook screen saver doesn't work so I'll start a new thread
for that.

Thanks for the information.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Bill

To change the cluster size you need a third party partitioning tool
e.g. Partition Magic or the like. Doing it is not without risk so you
need to take precautions if you do.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Bill Watt]

I know, I have Partition Magic 5.01 but it won't work on XP.

BootitNG would probably work but having tried it I never know
exactly what it's going to do.
I'll live with it, for awhile anyway.

Thanks for your input.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
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[Computerflyer]

I have Norton System Works 2002 that includes Speed Disk plus a
bunch of other utilities. Will that work on XP?

I seem to remember that if you use Speed Disk you should continue
with it.

What are the updates for?

Thanks

Bill Watt

XP setup on the install CD will give you an option to convert FAT32 to
NTFS as it does a disk inspection. With 80% used it will be less than
quick but it should work. Backups are always good

If you don't mind the command line open a command (DOS) window and
type "help convert". Not sure if you can do the C: drive while it is
in use - probably not. I believe you could also start the recovery
console on the install CD and use the command line since you are not
running off C:

Updates - just like with Windows, to make sure your utilities are up
to date. FWIW I had speeddisk years ago but swore off anything with
Norton/Symantec on the label. No worries to use something else.
Since some of the defrags have their own style of organising blocks
the first run might be slower than subsequent runs regardfless of
which other you might try.

 

[Bill Watt]

XP setup on the install CD will give you an option to convert FAT32 to
NTFS as it does a disk inspection. With 80% used it will be less than
quick but it should work. Backups are always good

If you don't mind the command line open a command (DOS) window and
type "help convert". Not sure if you can do the C: drive while it is
in use - probably not. I believe you could also start the recovery
console on the install CD and use the command line since you are not
running off C:

Updates - just like with Windows, to make sure your utilities are up
to date. FWIW I had speeddisk years ago but swore off anything with
Norton/Symantec on the label. No worries to use something else.
Since some of the defrags have their own style of organising blocks
the first run might be slower than subsequent runs regardfless of
which other you might try.

Thanks, I'll look into it. I swore off Symantec also.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/