[wellylug] Screwed up laptop :(

Donald Gordon don at dis.org.nz
Mon Jun 30 11:24:39 NZST 2003


On 30 Jun 2003 10:21:02 +1200 Centurion Computer Technology Ltd <centurion at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> I would highly recommend you remain with NTFS for Windows XP, or you are
> going to find it performs very poorly, and you will forever be
> defragging the fat32 partition.  Just make sure XP uses a basic
> partition setup instead of Logical Disk Management, and you should have
> no problems.  I should default to this if you reinstall XP after
> creating the extra partitions for linux.

I'd agree with that advice, although I defragged my NTFS partition
yesterday and discovered that the XP Service Pack 1 I'd downloaded was
split into 2953 fragments :-)

donald

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