Convert FAT32 to NTFS

[----Fred----]

Hello,

I converted FAT32 to NTFS using the command line tool.
However, my disk access time is much longer now. My
programs seem to take a long time to open.

I have a Maxtor 40GB HD and the cluster size is 512kB

Any Ideas?

 

[Kenrick Fu]

Have you tried running the Disk Defragmenter to defragment the hard disk?
Disk performance can be affected if files on hard disk drive are severely
fragmented.

 

[R. McCarty]

512 KB cluster size affects performance. Preferably you should
have a partition with 4K clusters. In some cases even larger size
clusters are an advantage ( Music, Video - Large files). My music
collection resides on a partition that uses 64K clusters.

Cluster resizing can be done by Partition Magic 8.0 and some
other disk utilities.