On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:33:37 -0500, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've use the floppy before with no problems. It is NOT the >new one that has all that garbage on it that screws a HD up >(it's v9.09). > >Well Greg, I used the windows SU disk to format the HD this >time and it STILL is showing 4096k cluster sizes! > >>>>From your other reply: >Use chkdsk, to determine cluster size ... >http://onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips.htm#scandisk > >I did that, and it shows the cluster size ("allocation >units") @ 4096K! So, I don't get it. Why does Sandra Pro >state 16k???? > >I will reformat again using the windows SU disk as it >suggests and see what that does. I can't understand though >why I have never seen this problem before on 15gb, 18gb, 20gb >>>>or 45gb drives. > >What now? :-) Why am I having this problem now? I NEVER >have before with large HD's. How do I change the cluster >size to 16k? (If this is the consensus as to what is causing >the problem). >-Clint Have you run scandisk in dos? Perhaps the hdd is bogus. The overlay floppy you ran, is the floppy write protected? I've only worked on my two machines, so I can't give you a heck of a lot of experience here. The last hdd I installed (20GB) I just chopped it into 4 partitions. And I also use Partition Magic and Drive Image for anything else I want to do. Before that I had a 40 GB Fujitsu. One partition, but I used PM6 to set the clusters at 4k. ============= 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 =====================================================
