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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!
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!