NTFS Boot Slower than Fat32?

[Ron Boetger]

I just purchased a new laptop with WinXP Pro for some reason it was
formatted FAT32. I changed it to NTFS. Is it my imagination or does
it take longer to boot with NTFS?

Thanks

Ron

 

[Person]

No...

 

[Ron Boetger]

Can you tell me why it is slower?

Thanks

Ron

No...

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I just purchased a new laptop with WinXP Pro for some reason it was
formatted FAT32. I changed it to NTFS. Is it my imagination or does
it take longer to boot with NTFS?

Possibly .. did you defrag it after you converted it? The FAT32 would
have had a huge clustersize, which would have helped in places .. what's
your cluster size now? (Should be 4k, if the FAT32 was formatted by
WinXP .. if some nitwit used something else to fdisk/format, then the
cluster size may be stupidly small.). You can check it by running chkdsk
in a CMD window, or creating a 1 byte text file and looking at its
properties.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I just purchased a new laptop with WinXP Pro for some reason it was
formatted FAT32. I changed it to NTFS. Is it my imagination or does
it take longer to boot with NTFS?

This may be because the files are not yet in optimal layout for a quick
boot. You can get the program BootVis from Microsoft to optimise them,
or wait a bit; the Prefetch system will kick in every three days to do
some re-arrangement in a quiet moment, and after a couple of weeks it
should be up to speed