Resizing Clusters on XP

[Graz]

Is there a consenses on the best (or only) way to resize NTFS clusters. I currently have Partition Magic (vs 7), Ghost, and several XP and win98 machines. I've formatted disks FAT32 with 16k clusters and run convert on it only to have the resulting NTFS cluster size set at 512 bytes. As you would expect disk performance sucks. any way around this?

 

[Paunchy]

Originally posted by: Graz
Is there a consenses on the best (or only) way to resize NTFS clusters. I currently have Partition Magic (vs 7), Ghost, and several XP and win98 machines. I've formatted disks FAT32 with 16k clusters and run convert on it only to have the resulting NTFS cluster size set at 512 bytes. As you would expect disk performance sucks. any way around this?

Partition Magic can resize NTFS clusters. Just select the size you want (larger than 512 bytes ) and go to dinner while it converts.

--Paunchy

 

[c0rv1d43]

For future reference, if you format the drives as FAT32 (I presume you're doing that because you need to be able to restore Ghost images to them.) with WinXP's setup utility, then restore the image, then use WinXP's CONVERT utility, you'll probably wind up with the standard 4,096 byte cluster size. But when you format using Win98's format command you usually will wind up with 512 byte clusters. Of course WinXP won't let you format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 gigs.

- Collin

 

[Broadkipa]

Paragon Software's Partion Manager will resize clusters on an NTFS system with Win XP. I have used it and I changed my clusters from 512k to 4Kb. It took about 1Hr 15Mins to complete on a 30Gig hard drive.I did it on a drive with XP and all my programes and data on and still had a working computer at the end of it. A good programe.

 

[Graz]

Thanks All

 

[sodcha0s]

Paunchy,

I have Partition Magic 7.0, and it will
not let me re-size my NTFS clusters. The re-size cluster option is greyed out for my NTFS partitions, however it isn't on the FAT32 ones. The help file only talks about re-sizing FAT clusters. Is there something I'm missing, or another program that can do it?