As I am on a mission, mainly a learning curve with XP being that I like to thin out the useless parts that I don't use.
I thought it may be of interest to some.
Warning: I would not attempt this without a decent backup system such as ghost or true image!
Just the other day day I spotted coupla old pc's in a bulk garbage bin and managed to score a an old working 3 gig drive!
So decided to hook it up as master, format and install XP inFat 32 which I haven't tried before.
Well the drive was OK and after installing the hibernation was turned off by default,sys32 dll cache was kept to a mininum.Instead of the 2,5000 files @ 450 meg it was only a coupla megs in size.
Only prob was the old drive was so slow that I ghosted an image to my 40 gig 7200rpm spare and the hooked it up as a slave to my 120 gig master and am booting from it through bios.
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The speed is as good as if not better than booting from my main 120 gig master.
Screenies of the different installation methods after a perfect disk run.
Both partitiuons roughly the same size with between 800 -900- meg of data on each.
Notice the MFT with NTFS file system?