User's Manual

Increase performance

A progress bar at the bottom left shows the total progress for all drives.

The progress for each drive is also shown directly after the drive names in the drive

selection list. Click Cancel to stop the process at any time.

Tip: NTFS is better than FAT

Hard disks can either use the NTFS file system, as used in the most recent versions of

Windows, or the older FAT system that is supported by earlier Windows versions. Analysis

of drives before defragmentation is substantially faster on NTFS drives. For FAT systems,

the user will need to wait significantly longer. This is just one of several reasons that the

old FAT system should be converted to the modern NTFS system.

The NTFS file system (NTFS = New Technology File System) is a file system used from

Windows NT and its successors up to Vista. It offers an intelligently devised access

protection to file levels, allows flexible management of privileges, accommodates file sizes

above 4 GB, offers automatic error correction of the file system and can utilize the storage

space of today's standard hard disk sizes in a considerably more efficient manner.

Conversion can be performed very easily. In Windows, click Start, open All Programs,

navigate to Accessories and click on Command Prompt

. The command CONVERT.EXE

C: /FS:NTFS starts the conversion. Replace C: with another drive letter to convert another

partition. If the system partition is changed, the computer will need to be restarted. In this

case, follow the instructions on your screen. Although conversion is considered very secure,

you should make a backup of your saved data before attempting this.