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|    philo to montygraham    |
|    Re: Question about reformatting with XP     |
|    18 Oct 11 19:41:08    |
      3f4cb002       From: philo@privacy.net              On 10/18/2011 07:13 PM, montygraham wrote:       > A friend of mine has an Acer Aspire One netbook with an 8 gig SSD HD.       > It's really slow. I've tried to help out but it's still rather slow.       > The SSD was formatted as NTSF and I've read that it will run very well       > if it's FAT32. If I reformat it to FAT32, do I then go into recovery       > mode and reinstall XP that way, or is that not possible? If that       > won't work, is there any other way to do this? The computer did not       > come with any CDs (and it doesn't have a CD player anyway). Thanks in       > advance.                     You have read wrong              If the machine is slow it has a problem other than the file system              maybe not enough RAM              or maybe too many programs in startup                     The only way to change it to fat32 without a total re-install would be       to use a third party utility...but it would be a waste of time...       you need to get to the real problem              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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