The date and time was Monday, March 09, 2009 5:55:37 PM, and on a whim,
Phillip Pi pounded out on the keyboard:


Interesting. I did NOT set up these partitions and OS (think it was a
preinstalled image from IT since I remember having to get IT to set up
my account).

Can PartitionMagic v8.01 fix this (of course, backup)? If so, then how
much speed improvements am I expecting? Are you saying defragging won't
fix this slow issue?



Hi Phillip,

Someone is being very paranoid. There isn't anything wrong with your
cluster sizes. Most likely you have much less wasted space with 512
clusters, and you may have more fragmentation. So what. Use PM8 if you
have it. You can see what the difference in wasted space is by seeing
what you gain/lose by changing the cluster size. PM8 can change your
cluster size if you want it, but like you stated, create a backup first.

I have 3 hard drives with multiple partitions. OS, data, and program
drives are all 512kb cluster sizes. No issues. If you have large files
(video, etc), then use a larger size. But don't freak out because you
don't have 4k clusters. That's fretting over nothing.


Terry R.
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