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All of a sudden have 5GB more free space on C:/
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windows vista general On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:47:37 -0800, "Gary Mount" And any time you do use the convert command, first read http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm because there's an issue regarding cluster size that isn't obvious.

NTFS!
cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) cquirken...@nospam.mvps.org microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:00:01 -0700, gunzo99 "Chris Heald" wrote: Each file Not always, no - there's a downside to too many clusters (especially in FAT32) and reasons to avoid non-standard cluster sizes.

Myths Regarding Windows XP
File system fragmentation is irrelevant in most cases, except for one situation, and that's if your cluster size is not congruent with page size. Compared to absolutely not running at all with Vista? I'm not talking about just this specific case. You cannot show a situation where Windows has better VM

Is there any relationship between Sector Size and File ...
Si on veut installer VISTA sur un DD où il existe déjà une partition formatée, cette partiton sera refusée si elle n'est pas en NTFS. stop processing if it decides that the above requirements cannot be met using the specified cluster size. NTFS compression is not supported for allocation unit sizes above 4096.

DOS pisses on the grave of Mac OS
Saucy 5hd854ntjdk.dj9s634mcv3chj...@j44dsgsd2.net microsoft public windows vista general Each of the few times I've tried to install Windows Vista onto a partition formatted NTFS with cluster size ove 4KB (eg 8KB or 32KB), the Windows Vista installer refuses to allow Vista to go on said partition.

list size of all subdirectories from a script
Charlie Tame char...@tames.net microsoft public windows vista general Short answer, NO. Your drive is 2/3 full, it is recommended you do not go above about (the ones I can locate) Volume SW_Preload (C:): Volume size = 88640 MB Cluster size = 4 KB Used space = 54936 MB Free space = 33704 MBe Percent free space

PARTITIONING VISTA
Jeffrey S. Sparks jsspa...@bccinfo.com microsoft public windows vista general I've been using it with a sandisk 4gb cruser usb and it works fine. might try a usb I tried reformatting the CF card in various formats (FAT, FAT32, NTFS) with different cluster sizes, same thing. As a side note, the USB devices in my

Diskeeper defrag - never defrags some files
Pieter Zijlstra p.zylstra.nott...@hccnet.nl borland public delphi non-technical Richard Foersom wrote: But RAM is like 100x faster than disk, so I do not really beleive this look up problem. With 192GB and a modest 4K cluster size the FAT32 table would have just 49152 entries of 4 bytes = 192KB.

Upgrade ? OEM ? Vista ... Pls help :(
And, of course, Vista x64 boot loader and Ntdetect.com and Ntldr for "old" XP x86 and x64 Question is: How can I convert C: from FAT32 to NTFS without A little advance preparation is also strongly recommended, so you can avoid any performance hits caused by the default cluster size: Converting FAT32 to NTFS in

Boot Partition w/vNTFS cluster size larger than 4K? Help! :-)
Delrin twinson3...@yahoo.com microsoft public windows vista general I've been working on trying to get ReadyBoost working on my Vista 64 system for a week or so I tried reformatting the CF card in various formats (FAT, FAT32, NTFS) with different cluster sizes, same thing. As a side note, the USB devices in my

Vista defrag SUCKS
Just stick with the default 4K cluster size of NTFS and you're all set. :) With an 80GB drive I wouldn't worry about the trivial loss of space due to slack space Also, XP and presumably Vista need the swapfile on the boot drive for the crashdump to work properly so who knows what else is hardwired that way.

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Cluster size
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista general b11_ wrote: Sometimes the "size on disk" of a file is much larger than the There's very little that can be done about it, unless you've some way to ensure that each file's size is an even multiple of the partition's cluster size.

Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself
By understanding how the space is used on a hard disk you are in a more informed position to examine changing cluster size or file systems, maybe making smaller ..... Ali Alhadad salatti...@yahoo.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/9311/ http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/religion/salat26.zip

ReadyBoost Flash Memory - Fat32 or NTFS
Resizing at 12 GB doesn't require any relocation: # ntfsresize -ns 12G vista-corruptions.img ntfsresize v1.3.1 (libntfs 9:0:0) Device name : vista-corruptions.img NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size : 4096 bytes Current volume size: 20971516416 bytes (20972 MB) Current device size: 20971516416 bytes (20972 MB)

Help me please - partitions and start up issues!
For example, Vista won't run on FATxx properly, and if you relocate Windows Mail onto FATxx, you have the serious impact of huge numbers of loose files in a If one could specify the cluster size with format, then you'd have no reason to resort to a third-party tool. You'd still be left with the situation that

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Maurits n...@email.invalid microsoft public nl windows vista "Hans Schuts" <me@privacy. net.invalid> schreef in bericht news:pei6t2pdsimbrt0q6sigjmc14mbiv2q3bp@4ax.com. You cannot increase the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file system so that it ends up with less than 65527 clusters.

"downgrade" from Vista to XP
Colin Barnhorst colinbarha...@msn.com microsoft public windows vista general Retail. Upgrade or Full depends on the version Windows installed and whether 27 cm Viewable Diagonal Size 17.09 inch Disk details : Description : Drive C Partition format : NTFS Cluster size : 4 KB Drive label : HP_PAVILION Size 71139

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Neal at Spectdar Computing NealatSpectdarComput...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public access I've always advocated a smaller than default cluster size than XP's 4096k, usually settling on a 2048k size. The reason is less wasted space and ever so slightly better performance. I know Vista is a little slow so

Sudden departure...
So a file in ext2 can only have 16843017 blocks, if one configures ext2 for 1k cluster sizes. Since most people use 4k or 16k, ext2 can actually hold far bigger files. -- #191, ewi...@earthlink.net Windows Vista. Because it's time to refresh your hardware. Trust us.