Partition size ?

[Chris and Patsy]

Hi

I'm just about to install XP on a new 80GB drive and wondered what size
FAT32 partitions I should create for optimum cluster size. Can the group
please suggest what might be sensible ?

I don't want to use NTFS because of the problems of disk recovery, I've
already been there !

thanks
Chris

 

[rifleman]

problems with disk recovery? What "problems" have you had with disk
recovery?

 

[CT]

Don't answer his question.

-----Original Message-----
problems with disk recovery? What "problems" have you had with disk
recovery?




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[rifleman]

Ok - tell me why ;-)

Don't answer his question.

 

[Chris and Patsy]

Anybody going to answer my question !

Ok - tell me why ;-)

 

[Frank]

| Anybody going to answer my question !

first hit on google "cluster size"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140365

| | > Ok - tell me why ;-)
| > | > > Don't answer his question.

| > > >-----Original Message-----
|
| > > message
| > > >news:[email protected]...

 

[Frank]

| Hi
|
| I'm just about to install XP on a new 80GB drive and wondered what size
| FAT32 partitions I should create for optimum cluster size. Can the group
| please suggest what might be sensible ?
|
| I don't want to use NTFS because of the problems of disk recovery, I've
| already been there !
|
| thanks
| Chris
|
first hit on google "cluster size"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=140365

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm just about to install XP on a new 80GB drive and wondered what size
FAT32 partitions I should create for optimum cluster size. Can the group
please suggest what might be sensible ?

If you insist on FAT, and while I sympathise for the primary C: for the
system, I would use NTFS for others, then you want to keep the size just
under 8GB for that so as to get a 4K cluster. Then you could make
others larger. XP will not make a FAT 32 partition bigger than 32 GB
(your 80GB is decimal billion, or about 75 binary GB used by system
calculations) so you *could* have two of that size. But I would make a
second smallish partition for secondary software and small files, if you
must go for FAT, and make the rest a big NTFS one.

 

[Sunny]

The "purists" will hate you for knocking NTFS
Your "80Gb" drive will probably show up as 76Gb or so, using FAT32.
Partition of 8Gb will give you the optimum cluster size, and allow enough
room for WinXP to play with, on "C".
As for the size of the other partitions, ??
I would be considered a "disc waster" as I use FAT32 on my two home
networked PCs.
Both have two 80Gb hard drives each, one with WinME/WinXP dual boot, and the
other with WinXP.
(WinME is my preferred OS, and I want it to see/share files on the other PC)
Hard drive 1 = 3 partitions
Hard drive 2 = 2 partitions
CDROM/CDRW and Card reader add another 6 "drives", and IMHO that is
complicated enough for me