What are the possible consequences of converting FAT32 into NTFS?

I converted my HD to NTFS without re-aligning the clusters to 4KB size and my performance has suffered. Is there any way to re-align them without having to do a clean install of Windows The Bootit NG program does not allow re-aligning after conversion. My HD is 40GB in size.

 

Welcome to the forum Tbird100636,

I don't own a copy of Paragon Partition Manager but someone over on ee had brought up an old Scot's Newsletter (January 31, 2002 - Vol. 2, Issue No. 20) stating it was capable of converting ntfs cluster size from 512 to 4. A few member's here run it and am confident the one's who do will comment.

http://www.partition-manager.com/

On a forty gig drive it may be prudent to just reload. The option's for you to weigh.


Steve

 

Thanks!!! I'll give the partition manager a try!!!