Computer maintenance

[NeoGen]

I presume that NTFS by having much smaller blocks, will have index tables much larger than FAT32, right? Not that it is bad, because tables a bit larger are still no match for the FAT32's wasted space all across a hard drive. :roll:

I just hold a bit of a grudge against NTFS because if I boot from a dos disk, the hard drive won't be recognized. :? Are there dos tools for that?

[Strongbow]

Hi NeoGen,

It's quite different actually to a File Allocation Table as a FAT only lets the O/S know what is used and what isn't so that it can chain together blocks to create a virtual contigual file. With NTFS it uses a Master File Table (MFT) which is really a database and contains attributes (including security) on the data. The MFT is also much more intelligent in many ways and it takes into account capacity management and so reduces fragmentation of files although you still need to defrag from time to time but certainly not as often as a FAT based partition.

With regards to DOS boot. You can boot from a CD or a Diskette but why boot into a different O/S like DOS to read an NT filesystem? You would be better off booting the NTLoader from diskette so that you can utilize the NT tools like chkntfs, chkdsk and cacls.

Microsoft have listed the steps to do this (or you could just use the Rescue CD) http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;305595

...else there are NTFS readers available on the Net which work with DOS but you would really only be able to edit INI files and copy the odd file across rather than running the proper NT utilities!

[spikey_richie]

O&O keeps crashing on my PC. It gets to 99% and uses >90% CPU but after 2 or 3 hours it still hasn't finished.

It's crashing while looking at a file in _system restore...

[Strongbow]

I haven't used O&O for years but it used to have an option to scan at boot time, it may be worth trying that if the option is still there!

[Lagu]

Hi

When I ran O-O I couldn´t notice any high usage of Power or recourses. The recources was the whole timme very low say 5-10 % and I use my Athlon 1001 MHz 640 MB memory not my Athlon64 2300+

Lagu

[AMD-USR_JL]

O&O keeps crashing on my PC. It gets to 99% and uses >90% CPU but after 2 or 3 hours it still hasn't finished.

It's crashing while looking at a file in _system restore...

If you go under File>Options then to the the "tuning" tab, you can set how much of the system resources you want to use. You can also set if you want it to defrag the drives one by one or all at the same time. I don't if this will help with the crashed but it should help with the load.

[vaughan]

Illegal post deleted by me.

[Lagu]

Hi

I have cleaned the computer and after a start-up a got an alarm about BIOS as had change I didn’t understand that. When my computer was new and had the standard AMD fan I got high temperature regarding to uGuru. My reseller upgraded the Bios and the temp sank to 55-60 degree when it was hard working. I have saved the settings in BIOS setup but now uGuru shows 80 degree Celsius. I lie stable on 80 degree. I have never played with Bios settings before. I didn’t do anything, I only saved it and exit. However I know it is wrong because the newest BIOS version isn’t used. I’m not worry. There must have happened anything.

I have an ABIT motherboard and I not know how to upgrade the BIOS or where I can found it. :banghead: The Bios version is K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A1BC-19 build 11-12-2004. There must be a newer one. However, it is danger if it goes wrong. :bom:

Empty-5oul if you read above can you give me any advice and can you see if the voltage seems normal. I have QUIET as setting. You other members are of source welcome and reply.
I and Empty-5oul has the same motherboard and uGuru.

ABIT EQ shows following:

CPU 80 C
SYS 41 C
PVVM 47

V-core 1.51 Voltage
DDRVDD 2.66
DDRVTT 1.33
SBVDD 2.53
HTV 1.23
AGP 1.59
5V 5.05
3.3V 3.30
5VSB 5.02
3VDUAL 3.28
CPU fan 1860 rpm 12 cm in diameters
Auxiliary fan 8 cm …..

When I cleaned the computer I noticed the graphic card (ATI) has a little fan located on the underside. That had I never noticed before. The fan was full of dust and on the backside of the computer was a lot of dust where the can is perforate for the extra fan.

Lagu

[Empty_5oul]

make sure that fan on the graphics is spinning, sometimes dust gets into the mechanism so you need to flick it to get it started.

80degress on the CPU seems very hot. I am assuming this is wrong, on the abit forums there are many posts saying the temparatures reported are inaccurate. Depending on which components you chose may cause the uguru to get them wrong.
Try the abit forums http://forum.abit-usa.com/ I have found people generally reply quickly with good responses.

** in the guru software there is a flashBIOS utility. Did you accidently run this, i think that is the only time the message is displayed.

[Lagu]

Empty-5oul

Thanks, I joined this forums and posted a message.

Lagu :D