And the "Quick Format" is all I need to do? (With it attached via USB to the Win7 box)
Thank you all for this. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Alex Austin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
