Cluster Sizes In Vista

[Stephen J. Froman]

Has anyone tried formatting their hard drive with the Vista Recovery Console
with a cluster size above the default 4096 and then either tried restoring a
"CompletePC Backup" or then installing Vista? When I did a restore it
forced me to format the hard, I haven't tried doing a fresh install to see
if it also forces you to reformat. I used Partition Magic in XP to change
the cluster size on my disk but it doesn't work with Vista. The only other
software I could find was Partition Manager but that also doesn't work with
Vista. Anyone know of something that does?



Stephen F.

 

[Chad Harris]

Steven

1) I don't think that Vista *has a "Recovery Console."* MSFT finally had
the sense to kick this bumbling, awkward, inefficient, and 95% of the time
unsuccessful utility at repairing Windows XP no starts to the curb although
on a dual boot of XP and Vista it can be useful to get a couple things done
for Vista from the XP Recovery Console. Vista subs Win PE for the Recovery
Console. What exactly are you using to format?

2) I'm also not sure but when you talk about "restoring a Complete PC
Backup"--are you talking about using Win RE or the System Recovery Options
and the Startup Repair tool?

3) Several people have reported problems getting PM to work on Vista,
although again in a dual boot with XP you might get it to impact your Vista
space (drive volume, whatever from XP). PM is manufactured/run by Symantec
now, and even though they probably employ many of the former Power Quest
team, Symantec distinguishes itself by being the last to become compatible
with a Windows Operating System. Since recently Symantec has sued it's
Platinum partner MSFT in (strange behavior from Platinum megabillion dollar
homies isn't it?), I wouldn't expect Symantec to be rocket fast in getting
PM Vista compatible, and in fact one of the measures for relief sought by
Symantec could be to hold Vista's release. Even when there isn't litigation
between these two, as in the case of XP SP2, there wasn't any activity to
get compatibility until the week of XP SP2's release.


Symantec sues Microsoft over trade secrets
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003003687_websymantec18.html

Veritas Operating Corporation v. Microsoft Corporation C06-0703 05/18/2006
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cach...veritas+v.+microsoft&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

4) I'm confused on your question about a fresh install of Vista requiring
you to "format."

CH

 

[Bones]

I won't even let Symantec software in the same room as my pc., let alone
install it. It's the most poorly coded crap I've ever seen, they can't even
write a proper uninstaller.

 

[Stephen J. Froman]

It is Win PE, after the lang option when you boot off the DVD the Recovery
Option below the Windows Vista Install window. I went through that to get
to a command prompt to run "diskpart", a command line version of Disk
Management found in Computer Management, I used it to format the drive. The
"CompletePC Backup" is a new option in the backup utility on Vista. I
hadn't thought of using PM from XP to do it. Thanx

Stephen F.

 

[Stephen J. Froman]

Partition Magic sees the Vista hard drive as a "BAD" partition and won't let
me doing anything other than format it. Only other thing to try is format
the HD to 64K cluster size and then try a fresh install which may just turn
out to be a waist of time. I wish Microsoft would include a utility that
would allow you to make changes like that to the primary HD.


Stephen F.