[wellylug] Screwed up laptop :(

[Jamie Dobbs]

> 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
 I'd love to follow this advice but when the XP install is done from a
restore CD (ie. image of the drive) I have no control over how it sets up
its partitions and I'm not really keen on installing everything again
only to find that it screws something up.
I may try converting the FAT32 partition to NTFS (using PartitionMagic)
and then if necessary tweak the Linux install accordingly as it doesn't
matter too much if that gets screwed up but I don't want anything to
happen to the XP install as I've only just finished re-installing
applications on it!