HDD Noise

[gigsvoo]

Hi there,

Is there any effect to run W2kPro in FAT32? Coz now whenever my PC starts, there is a sound (quick one) crack sound, but the PC just works fine...anyhow to diagnostic it?


Thanks

Neo
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[Andy-S]

I don't believe your problem has anything to do with Fat32 and Windows 2000. Sometimes during initialization there can be resource conflicts with your startup applications and the audio driver. Is the crack occurring when the Windows wav file is playing. If so, I would try disabling some of your startup apps and see if that helps (I seem to remember NAV being a problem).

[gigsvoo]

FYI, I dun see any crack sound during playing wav sound...that is happened whenever i start the machine, restart the machine but no sound when i shut down.

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Neo
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[acymlf]

I'm not sure if running win2k in fat32 will affect anything or not but I had the same cracking sound when I run Linux in Fat 32(not advisable). Probably it is to do with how the hard disk is formatted and how different OS access the hard disk. I think it is better to stick to the OS's own native partition unless for some particular good reason. :)

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[gigsvoo]

Personally i dun think so...

Thanks

Neo
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[BertImmenschuh]

If you are still concerned about the drive, get the brand name of the maker and go to their web site, most of them have a diagnostic for their own drives. Seagate's SeaTools, Maxtor's MaxBlast or PowerDiag, Western Digital's DataLifeguard, etc.

[gigsvoo]

I personally felt that a drive running W2k with FAT32 is eventually faster than NTFS, what do ur think about this?

Thanks

Neo
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[BertImmenschuh]

Sure it's faster with FAT32, but it does not have the security that NTFS does. There's always a trade-off between security and speed. A lot of people probably would not notice the difference. If I was a gamer I wouldn't even think of NTFS, on the other hand I wouldn't dream of a server with FAT32.

[gigsvoo]

I just converted my FS to NTFS this morning after i posted the message...looks OK to me...my PC is for business software development, stability is vital but no gaming is serve here....so NTFS or FAT32?

Thanks

Neo
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[BertImmenschuh]

Go for it. The beauty of NTFS is the ability to protect you developmental files/folders to keep out those you want kept out. The only problem with NTFS is the inability of DOS/Win9x boot disks to read the drive, but then that is an advantage in another sense.

[gigsvoo]

And also i believe NTFS have better network performance rite?

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Neo
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[BertImmenschuh]

NTFS itself probably is not that important on a network on the basis of performance. Many companies require NTFS for that security reasons, so you have to have WinNT4 WorkStation, Win2000 Pro, or WinXP Pro. Overall, I'd say that for stable use and file security, a person should use WinNT4, Win2000, or WinXP and the NTFS file system and just not worry about speed. They probably will not notice much difference between NTFS and FAT32.

[gigsvoo]

Both performance and stability is utopia for everyone, anyhow can optimize w2k Pro?

Thanks

Neo
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[BertImmenschuh]

Just make sure that you are using the ATA(UltraDMA)66 or 100 speed of your hard drive if the motherboard/drive support it. You have to use an '80-conductor' cable, it looks just like 40-pin except each conductor is shielded to prevent cross-talk and is stiffer. I'm sure Win2K supports at least ATA66. This is a link for a patch to ATA100: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=22161

This is what Maxtor had on their site:
"Windows 2000 does not support ATA 100 (UDMA Mode 5) for ATA/IDE hard disks. All Ultra ATA/100 ATA hard disks that are used with Windows 2000 default to Ultra ATA/66 (UDMA Mode 4).

The information in this FAQ applies to the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this FAQ. Microsoft has corrected this issue with the release of Service Pack 2 for Windows 2000. Please visit Microsoft's web site to obtain the latest service pack. For additional details on this issue please review the following Microsoft knowledge base article:
Windows 2000 Update: Patch to Add Support for ATA 100 IDE Hard Disk Drives.

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

Date Time Version Size File name
04/27/2000 04:05p 5.00.2195.2073 85,232 Atapi.sys
04/27/2000 04:05p 5.00.2195.2073 4,432 Intelide.sys
04/27/2000 04:05p 5.00.2195.2073 3,088 Pciide.sys
04/27/2000 04:05p 5.00.2195.2073 21,936 Pciidex.sys

Additional Information:
If you installed the "hotfix" to correct this issue which was available prior to the release of Service Pack 2, you may notice an incorrect "PIO" value displayed on the Advanced Settings tab for an IDE device in Device Manager. This does not mean that the device is functioning in "PIO" mode. Windows 2000 is displaying an incorrect value. This issue was also corrected by Microsoft in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2."

[videobruce]

Anyone know just what the speed difference between NTFS and FAT32??
Some number or %.

[gigsvoo]

By now, it is hard to measure the percentange of speed compared 2 of em, coz also depending on the hardware, like HDD spin speed and defragmentation, size of RAM, cache and file size that you tried to access.

Generally, i think NTFS got lots of security checking, compression and the structure is generally larger than FAT cluster size, and therefore it is slower if compared with the earlier.

Read this would also give u some clue:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/russel/october01.asp

Thanks

Neo
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