I use Western Digital's Data Lifeguard v 2.8 http://support.wdc.com/download/ to take care of my HD installations, formatting BIOS Check, Diagnostics, and partitioning. Of course, I ONLY use WD drives for several years, but I suppose their program is compatible with other drives. I can completely reformat, partition and install a used/new 40-GB with this program in less that (FIVE) minutes. . . Impossible you say. . .well give or take a couple seconds. This is using the FAT32 format for all partitions, even though I run A TRIPLE BOOT, XP, 2000, and ME I still prefer the FAT32. . .
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kaulback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: "not enough memory to run scandisk" regardless I forgot this in my favorites http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partSizes-c.html, is the system actually seeing the 17 gb drive in it's entirety? You can tweak the cluster size when formatting using the "/Z" switch, see here http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/progFORMAT-c.html but I don't recommend it's use for clients systems. Peter Kaulback In the hour of 09:45 AM 4/14/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton spoke this: >Peter, that was as high as the table went; >http://onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#scandisk >Up to 8 gb 4K clusters >8 to 16 gb 8K clusters >16 to 32 gb 16K clusters >32 to 64 gb 32K clusters > >What it says on that page is not correct: > >"The cluster size can be corrected by booting the computer >with a Windows startup disk and reformatting the drive with >the format program on the startup disk." > >I did that, and it still shows 4k cluster size for a 17.2gb >HD. Something else odd, on MY pc, I have two 20gb ATA133 >drives on a RAID stripe (which is a total of only 20gb) and >they have 32k clusters! >-Clint > >God Bless Us All >Clint Hamilton, Owner >http://OrpheusComputing.com > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Peter Kaulback" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 9:29 AM >Subject: Re: PCWorks: "not enough memory to run scandisk" >regardless > > >Hello Greg, > >Do you have an extension for this table? As in what cluster >size FAT32 must >have with a 160 gb hard drive? Going by this table FAT32 >would require 128k >clusters for that drive size >I don't use FAT32 any more, unless I install a win9x, and >haven't dealt >with 64k clusters since NT. >Interesting. > >Peter Kaulback > >In the hour of 09:48 AM 4/14/2002 -0400, Greg M spoke this: > > > Hard disk size Cluster size > > > ------------------------------- > > > 16 GB and larger 16 KB ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
