Help tweak my new Aspire 3050?

It came in the mail today, I've started it up and downloaded a bunch of updates, etc. I'm happy to report there isn't much bloatware, I'd just like to replace Norton with McCafee.

Is there anything I can do to make this run optimally?

Also, the hard drive is partitioned into two drives of about the same volume. They are both formatted in FAT32. I want them together as one drive and formatted in NTFS, how do I do that?

Thanks!

 

for your ntfs question and for the partitioning question it would be easy to just format with a clean copy of xp, for convert the drive to ntfs is easy just use the convert command in Command Prompt. On D:\ it will convert to 4kb clusters which as you probably know is good, but C:\ will only convert to 512kb clusters with is actually a downgrade from fat32

to partion the drive you will need a program to do that.
when dealing with partions it is possible that you need to re install windows...

that's what i know, i use Fat32 on my computer and it is still lightening fast.

 

convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

This is the command to convert a drive, not recommend for C:\ but D:\ will work great.

there is was way to change the cluster size but i don't know how.

Good luck.

 

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