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- From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
- Subject: Re: Going from FAT TO HPFS -recomendable YET ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.211137.5641@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
- References: <BENTE.2.714673751@gribb.hsr.no>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 21:11:37 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <BENTE.2.714673751@gribb.hsr.no>, BENTE@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein 94/96) writes:
- > I was thinking about going from FAT to HPFS, but I have some thaughts
- > against it still.
- >
- > 1. Can I backup the WPS with WPBackup, and surely get all my icons and
- > folders back again ( and all my dos-box settings ) ?
- I don't know this program, but if it is an os/2 program, it is no reason
- that it should not work.
-
- >
- > 2. What about HPFS utilites ? Do we have any utilities for HPFS like
- > NDD, Speedisk ...
- I read about something called the gammatech utilities, wich can defragment
- a HPFS disk. But, according to previous postings from others, HPFS disks don't
- tend to get fragmented, so you will probably not need any utilities.
-
- >
- > 3. Is there a perfomance gain ( se my specs ) ?
- >
- Yes. I have read that HPFS improves a lot over FAT when the disk size
- exceeds 60 MB. I have tried both file systems on my own machine,
- (100MB HD, 8 MB ram), and HPFS was both faster, stabler, and easier to
- use.
-
- > I am running a 486 clone with 8 meg of RAM an two HD (130+50 Meg).
- > I've got 256 Kb internal CACHE and a Trident 8900c 1 Mb card. AMI 1991 BIOS.
- > (and a USR V32/42bis)
- >
- > THANK's FOR REPLIES :-)
- >
- > Svein Fagerland Rogaland University Centre NORWAY :-)
-
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