It may already be formatted as such, but Win7 can make sure. - Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Scott Matthews <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you! This seems almost too simple, so forgive me for trying to > make sure I do have it all right... > > So all I have to do is pop the 4k sector drive (2TB) into a USB > enclosure, attach that to my Win7 box, and perform a Quick Format -- > then I'm done, and it can be moved back over to the XP box? > > (Why wouldn't it just come pre-formatted this way?) > > Is there any downside to using this sort of 4k drive on XP (assuming I > follow the procedure outlined above)? > > fwiw, I'm leaning toward a Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB -- also > thinking about getting a Thermaltake BlacX Duet, which seems like a > nifty idea (the didn't exist the last time I did this). > > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Alex Austin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The only important point to the drive, performance wise, is that the main > > partition begin on a 4k boundary. Windows 7 will make sure that happens, > and > > format the filesystem with 4K block sizes, leaving it safe for Windows > XP to > > use. Even if XP addresses the drive in 512-byte sectors, it will still be > > doing so in 4K chunks, and the drive will do the translation itself. > > > > - Alex > > -- > > Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than > to > > put one in a fruit salad. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Scott Matthews <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> > You could attach the USB drive to a Windows 7 machine, format > >> > (initialize?) it there, then move it for use next to your XP machine. > >> > >> Out of curiosity, why doesn't it then "just work" (don't they come > >> formatted)? ie, is formatting it on Windows 7 somehow changing it from > >> 4k to 512 sectors? > >> > >> So all I have to do is attach a 4k sector drive via a USB enclosure to > >> a Win7 box, Quick Format it there, and then it'll be fine back over on > >> the XP box? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Thinkpad mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > > > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
