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Rick,
I should have added the Universal caveat to image the drive
before even attempting it. Acronis also has a product that will
do it as well. Best I remember you have to uncompress the
DllCache Folder and remove any $NTUn..., which are also
compressed. It's definitely a 7-8 on the difficulty scale and
not a "Novice" type of procedure. Conversion is also very
time intensive, especially for users with a single partition or
a drive that holds 100% of their setup. A 6-10 Gigabyte disk
or partition will usually take 45-minutes to an hour. Best done
with a PQMagic DOS boot floppy/CD-R.
"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:u2A4oMJgFHA.3196@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I was aware of PM's alleged ability, but the two people I know that tried
> it both ended up with corrupted volumes and loss of all data on them. I
> should have rephrased that as "I do not know of any tools that can change
> the NTFS cluster size post-conversion successfully".
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:Oh4ny$IgFHA.2700@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Partition Magic will do Cluster resizing on a 512 Byte sized partition.
>> You have to do some prep work for it to work properly. I've done
>> this on a number of FAT32->NTFS conversions where the boundary
>> limitation created the 512-Byte clusters. There are a few pitfalls that
>> can cause it to fail (Sparse Data Attributes) & compressed files and
>> folders. You have to be careful with an XP (SP2) partition if you try
>> to use greater than 4K-Byte clusters. SP2 has an issue with record
>> spanning at boot and you'll get a "I/O error". If you want to use a XP
>> partition with 8K+ clusters you have to install XP using a Gold/SP1
>> disk and then apply Service Pack 2. Even with that, if you ever do a
>> "Repair Install" you'll get the I/O error and have to resize back to 4K.
>>
>>
>> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:%23$vkq5IgFHA.3936@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> In addition, the 512 byte clusters are the result of the partitions not
>>> being aligned on the 4K boundaries prior to conversion. This is quite
>>> common in a FAT32 partition. There is naught you can do about this other
>>> than destroying and recreating the volume. I do not know of any tools
>>> that can change the NTFS cluster size post-conversion. As it only
>>> affects the data storage volumes, this small cluster size should not
>>> have any effect on performance.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best of Luck,
>>>
>>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>>
>>> "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <test@test.com> wrote in message
>>> news:0u8ye.7$D57.0@fe01.ams...
>>>> Prabhat wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have 80 GB HDD and have 5 Partitions (20 + 15 + 15 + 15 + 15).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> While installing XP + SP2 Slipstreamed in Drive C of 20 GB I have
>>>>> formatted the C: with XP NTFS. Rest all drives are FAT32.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Later I converted other Drives to NTFS.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When I view the drives using Partition Magic it display NTFS Type as:
>>>>> NTFS
>>>>> 3.1. But I think XP has NTFS 5.1 then Why does it still display 3.1?
>>>>> Please Advice.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Also The C: (Formatted in XP) display 4K but other display 512?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any way that I can convert to Partitions to 4K NTFS?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Prabhat
>>>>
>>>> You're confusing XP's version number (it is, technically NT5.1) with
>>>> the NTFS file format revision number.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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