I was reading up about the windows 2000 logical disk management (LDM) utility and came up with an interesting idea to exploit FAT32. LDM will let you add partition space to an existing logical disk (but only if the FAT32 partitions are empty) and make the two (or three or more) partitions appear as a single drive letter. However, you can't do it on the partition containing your system files. I can't try this myself yet and am curious as to whether this would work or not.
My idea is to take a 45GB disk and divide it into 3 15GB partitions. This puts the cluster size at 8k for each partition, which is pretty efficient. Then just join these three partitions into one logical drive. Then you would have a 45GB disk using a cluster size of 8k.
Would this work or would you need to format the drive after joining the partitions which would screw everything up?
My idea is to take a 45GB disk and divide it into 3 15GB partitions. This puts the cluster size at 8k for each partition, which is pretty efficient. Then just join these three partitions into one logical drive. Then you would have a 45GB disk using a cluster size of 8k.
Would this work or would you need to format the drive after joining the partitions which would screw everything up?
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