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Just bought the Asus F3JA - Little Help Please
I was originally planning on buying an Acer Travelmate 4672WLMi but got scared off by the negative reviews of the x1400 that I would have been getting with it. Add to that the fact that I would have had to merge the partition and change from fat32 to ntfs I just decided to change the laptop I bought to this for only £10 more.
I do have a few questions though.
Are there two partitions? This does seem likely to me and I don't really mind it too much as it should be simple enough to merge them.
I wont have to change from fat32 to ntfs will I? Again not too much of a problem as partition magic does both.
how much Asus bloatware comes on the laptop? What can I concievably get rid of?
A friend of mine bought an A3 (at least I think it was an A3) about 6 months ago and he messed up his Asus wireless card software, can I get rid of that software and just use the XP wireless connection tools or do I have to use the Asus software?
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Re: Just bought the Asus F3JA - Little Help Please
Hey,
- ASUS notebooks usually come with 3 partitions: C, D and a hidden recover partition. It's quite easy to format and recreate the partitions, or just merge them using Partition Magic as you said.
- You don't have to change to NTFS, but there's no benefit of staying with FAT32. NTFS is newer, and handles files better, also provides more security at file level. If you're gonna convert to NTFS as opposed to reformat from scratch, make sure you follow the preliminary steps
- Not much bloatware.. mostly ASUS utilities. It does usually come with Norton Internet Security, which lots of ppl seem to dislike and uninstall...
- Yep, you can surely just use XP wireless to manage your connections.
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I'll be using partition magic to change the format to ntfs is needed so do i need to follow those "preliminary steps" or will partition magic deal with that on its own?
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Not sure... coz I usually format new PC's on mine, so I've never had to follow those steps.
I think you might still need to follow those steps, since Partition Magic just deals with the partitions, not file systems.
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apparently patition magic can also change the file system so thats why I was asking about that.
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Ah .. ic... never tried that.... but just to be safe, I'd still recommend doing the preliminary steps... shouldn't take long...
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On the desktop of all ENSEMBLE units there is a NTFS converter, so just run it and voila, it'll make your drive into a NTFS.
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I'll be using partition magic to change the format to ntfs is needed so do i need to follow those "preliminary steps" or will partition magic deal with that on its own?
Actually, you don't need to use a 3rd party application to convert the format from fat32 to ntfs. You can see a program on desktop "converter", only click it and run it. Another choice is to go to command prompt to type "convert c: /fs:ntfs". All the steps can be finished by these 2 options.
Cheers
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I'm assuming thats the converter on "ENSEMBLE" units that coriolis mentioned.
But thanks for all the help with my questions so far, it's a friendly board and I think I'll be around here for a while. Very Informative.
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Whichever method you use, just remember the prelim steps before you convert... there's supposed to be some drawback if you don't do the cluster conversion ... since converting to NTFS is a one way street...