I have read a lot of the excellent tips on clean installing XP by booting
from the XP CD. I have also read a lot about properly formatting a NTFS
drive to have 4K Clusters for best performance. If I boot from the XP CD,
remove my current FAT32 partition and install a new partition, select the
NTFS File System, and let the CD format the drive, will it select the 4K
Cluster Size correctly? I have two SCSI drives, my C drive is 18GB and my
D drive is 73GB. If I understand what I have been reading, this will
happen.

Also, I have read that proper MFT placement can increase drive performance.
Does the XP install CD and NTFS formatting routine address this as well?

Thanks for your help!
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TJ

Yes and yes.

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Nicholas

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"TJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message:
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| I have read a lot of the excellent tips on clean installing XP by booting
| from the XP CD. I have also read a lot about properly formatting a NTFS
| drive to have 4K Clusters for best performance. If I boot from the XP CD,
| remove my current FAT32 partition and install a new partition, select the
| NTFS File System, and let the CD format the drive, will it select the 4K
| Cluster Size correctly? I have two SCSI drives, my C drive is 18GB and my
| D drive is 73GB. If I understand what I have been reading, this will
| happen.
|
| Also, I have read that proper MFT placement can increase drive performance.
| Does the XP install CD and NTFS formatting routine address this as well?
|
| Thanks for your help!
| ---
| TJ

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:05:27 -0500, "Nicholas" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Yes and yes.

Thanks!

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TJ