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Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 8:05 am
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Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted)


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Hello Jeff, with this amount of data I would use another computer to transfer all of it to so that you can wipe your drives and re-install. Other methods would take far too long and use a lot of materials for no return, such as CDRs As a matter of interest to me, please may I ask you a favour? Can you say if your drives are partitioned at all and whether they are or not, would you be so good as to go to each drive in turn and type chkdsk to see the cluster size, i.e. the number of bytes per allocation unit. You can do this in a DOS window. C:\WINDOWS>chkdsk C:\WINDOWS>D: , and press Enter D:\>chkdsk And so on. Mine reads "4096 bytes in each allocation unit" on all four drives. This is the same as NTFS. FYI , 4096 bytes is reckoned to be the optimum cluster size. You can obtain this cluster size on a FAT32 volume using: A:\>format c: /Z:8 It is recommended to partition drives with fdisk with a maximum of four partitions per physical drive. Thanks in advance,

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(MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (jeff: Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 9:42 pm)

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*re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (jeff: Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 2:22 pm)

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-(MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (jeff: Sat, Jul 10, 2004, 9:42 pm)
-re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (joe: Sat, Jul 10, 2004, 11:23 pm)
-re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (joe: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 12:01 am)
-re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (jeff: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 1:17 am)
*re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (joe: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 5:29 am)
-re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (Donna R: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 5:53 am)
*re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (jeff: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 6:44 am)
*re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (Cam: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 8:17 am)
-re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (Cam: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 8:05 am)
-re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help (jeff: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 2:22 pm)
-re: Reply (Cam: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 3:24 pm)
-re: Reply (jeff: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 4:28 pm)
*re: Reply (Cam: Sun, Jul 11, 2004, 10:45 pm)
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