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re: (MAC IF YOUR AROUND) save data before reinstall help
Sunday, July 11, 2004 at 8:05 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
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,
Mac
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