How can I resize the cluster size?. Hiii I wanna write a program to change the cluster size of a ( NTFS ) partition... With out deleting the contents (I mean through formatting it is possible..) Without formatting............How Can I do this...

a reason. To the best of my knowledge there isn't any way to change the default cluster size from within the Windows installation process. The cluster size you'll get is the default for the size of drive you're using. [u][/u] shows the default cluster sizes...

Video, Music) using large clusters (up to 64KBytes) may be more efficient, but results in more wastage. "Manny Borges" wrote in message news:75237028-FADF-49DA-854B-28BBED68129C@microsoft.com... > About that4 k and 512byte cluster size reported. >> I...

and it wrote the new cluster size at 32. and it still boots. apparently, norton ghost, even though it resized the partiton, made some sort of glitch with the boot cluster sizes wich easeus fixed!!! i still can't get the full drive partitioned as fat32,...

Partition size. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsme.general () I plan to fdisk and format to do a clean install of Win XP Home. I have a 40 gig drive and am wondering what would be a acceptable size for the primary partition? I plan to use...

Backup/partitioning gone horribly wrong. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion () Hi all, Decided to have a go at partitioning and backing up my computer, what a big mistake! Cancelled out half way through and am now stuck 'invalid...

chkdsk /p Chkdsk is checking the volumes Chkdsk is performing additional checking or recovery. (3 times) Chkdsk found one or more errors on the volume. 19535008K total disk space 19036876K are available. There was the usual info about cluster size....

but... there are better ways and reasons. For instance with FAT32 it's best to keep your OS C:\ partition under 8GB not only for best 4k cluster size efficiency, but as well for an OS you don't need anymore than 8GB anyway and besides it is so much faster...

Partition Drive?. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () Not sure if this is the right newsgroup to post this question, but since I just bought my Dell computer and have posted a couple of other questions with very good results, thought I would...

more than printers and the scheduler. Here is what happened: I needed more room on my 120GB HD. I used Partition Magic 8 to change the drive E cluster size from 4k to 512 bytes. PM8 toasted my system partition. So I tried to resize it to move what...