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reformatting my external harddrive
I want to reformat the Maxtor external harddrive so I can duplicate my new
harddrive without all the extraneous stuff that I had on it before. My question is what allocation unit size do you recommend when I reformat it in the NTFS format? My options a 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K or 64K. My understanding is that the larger the allocation unit, the more efficient the system. Is that correct? The Maxtor is 80 Gigs and I'm only using about 25 Gigs on my main internal harddrive. Thanks ... Michael Mauzey |
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reformatting my external harddrive
You should format your drive using 4096 KB for
your NTFS cluster size. NTFS Preinstallation and Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...reinstall.mspx -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Be Smart! Protect Your PC! http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Michael Mauzey" wrote: | I want to reformat the Maxtor external harddrive so I can duplicate my new | harddrive without all the extraneous stuff that I had on it before. My | question is what allocation unit size do you recommend when I reformat it in | the NTFS format? My options a | 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K or 64K. | | My understanding is that the larger the allocation unit, the more efficient | the system. Is that correct? The Maxtor is 80 Gigs and I'm only using about | 25 Gigs on my main internal harddrive. Thanks ... Michael Mauzey |
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reformatting my external harddrive
Thanks Carey, but I wish you had explained your answer more. The article
that you sent me to says that the cluster size for NTFS should be a power of 2 between 512 K and 64 M. Why do you suggest only 4K? Now I'm just more confused. "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote in message ... You should format your drive using 4096 KB for your NTFS cluster size. NTFS Preinstallation and Windows XP http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...reinstall.mspx -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Be Smart! Protect Your PC! http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Michael Mauzey" wrote: | I want to reformat the Maxtor external harddrive so I can duplicate my new | harddrive without all the extraneous stuff that I had on it before. My | question is what allocation unit size do you recommend when I reformat it in | the NTFS format? My options a | 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K or 64K. | | My understanding is that the larger the allocation unit, the more efficient | the system. Is that correct? The Maxtor is 80 Gigs and I'm only using about | 25 Gigs on my main internal harddrive. Thanks ... Michael Mauzey |
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