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   Lynsey Doyle to All   
   Re: Question about reformatting with XP    
   19 Oct 11 20:41:34   
   
   From: blackhole@3rdleft.com   
      
   "philo"  a écrit dans le message de groupe de   
   discussion : j7l6b5$r25$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
   > 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   
      
   I agree that Fat32 is not the problem but XP can change Fat32 to NTFS   
   without the slightest problem and no loss of data, I"ve done it on   
   several machines. Type NTFS into help for the command parameters   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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