How to convert 4bit to 32bit?

[forkd]

I used Partition magic and made my c drive 4 bit accidentally and installed windows. Holy cow! How can I convert it to 32 without having to reinstall windows etc.?????>>S:LDFJ:SLDF

 

[forkd]

bump

 

[HansXP]

I have no idea what you're asking...

 

[Patgod]

your guess is as good as mine.

 

[Joemonkey]

how can you make a DRIVE 4 bit? processors and applications are measured in bits, but hard drives? formats? never heard of such a thing

 

[forkd]

4/cluster

 

[kazeakuma]

ummm, So you're saying you converted the cluster size to 4096?
That should be a good thing, smaller cluster sizes = less wasted space. I think that's what you're saying. You're pretty vague.

 

[Staver]

Run PM from the diskettes and change it to anything you want. I'd need more info than you are giving to be more specific.

 

[forkd]

I am vague because I really don't know what I am talking about, but learning. I made the assumption that the bits/cluster had something to do with 32bit etc. I just reformatted and reinstalled windows and now I cannot install shockwave and the "detecting new hardware" status bar takes about 4 minutes to get to 100%. I assumed these were problems caused by my decision to use 4 bits/cluster instead of 32. It does, however, seem as though I have confused a few things. Any recommendations?

 

[rbV5]

<< &quot;detecting new hardware&quot; status bar takes about 4 minutes to get to 100%. >>



Changing the cluster size smaller may slow your computer a little, but likely won't cause your install to hang detecting hardware. Try installing with the bare minimum of hardware first, and adding your other stuff after a successful OS install.

More info such as, which of your sig rigs are you installing and which version of Windows may be helpful.


PS, the smaller cluster size will basically give you more storage on your hardrive(especially if you have alot of small files) due to the smaller amout of space allocated for the same file, as in: a 2k text file will take up 4k of your hardrive if you're using a cluster size of 4k, but 32k of your hardrive if you're using 32k clusters, so if ALL of your files were those 2k text files, you could put 8x as many in your hardrive with 4k clusters compared to 32k clusters.