Please help ASAP

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 5:56 pm

About to format the new drive. However, it is only reporting 7613MB instead of the 80gigs it's supposed to have. Anyway, I am formatting it NTFS and what should I set the allocation size to? Default, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16, 32, or 64?

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:02 pm

Mike , from what all i have read i use the default allocation size for normal home use.

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:03 pm

Ok, thanks for the reply. I'll trust you on this as I have no clue.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:05 pm

well i am no expert, but i have tried different sizes before on other partitions and never seemed to make much difference to me.

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:05 pm

I would think FAT32 is what you want.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:07 pm

Originally posted by jumpinduo
I would think FAT32 is what you want.

not from what i have read, NTFS is supossed to be less likley to crash and defragments less.

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:07 pm

Originally posted by jumpinduo
I would think FAT32 is what you want.

Nope. I want NTFS. From what I have read Fat 32 can't see drives bigger than something like 20 gigs. I want the 80 gig to be one big drive which is why I chose NTFS.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 6:23 pm

Mike just set your pc to boot from the cdrom and insert your 2K or XP disc and it will give the option of formatting your drive with NTFS. Just use the default file size and yes NTFS is far better.

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 8:17 pm

Originally posted by mikemean

Nope. I want NTFS. From what I have read Fat 32 can't see drives bigger than something like 20 gigs. I want the 80 gig to be one big drive which is why I chose NTFS.

2 hard drives here...

80 gig is split into 3x26.6 gig drives

60 gig is split into 1x40 and 1x20

note: ALL FAT32

mikemean · Post by **mikemean** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 8:50 pm

I don't want to partition.

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 8:56 pm

im just saying... i had an 80 gig fat32 drive before i partitioned...

you said

From what I have read Fat 32 can't see drives bigger than something like 20 gigs.

obviously it can since all my drives are bigger than 20 gigs

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 1:16 am

Yeah, my drive is 60GB through fat32.

Although you are probably right about the other being more stable. I have never heard of the other option.

HawaiianGhost · Post by **HawaiianGhost** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 4:40 am

Originally posted by mikemean

Nope. I want NTFS. From what I have read Fat 32 can't see drives bigger than something like 20 gigs. I want the 80 gig to be one big drive which is why I chose NTFS.

It's more or less OS dependent, something like this:

W98SE = up to 32gb

WMe = up to I think 82 GB or 1 terra byte(100GB)

NTFS = ??? (I know it's some large amount though)

NTFS optimally uses cluster sizes of 4k, hence less fragmentation = less defrag operations required = more FRAGGIN' time on-line in UT, MOHAA, DEUS Ex, etc...Just thought you'd like to know. There are pros and cons of NTFS formatting though, read somewhere about it can't remember. Maybe someone else here can give an in-depth about it(?) This is my first time with "WinXP" NTFS, I actually dual boot w/WinMe using Fat32 (which did recognize 60+GB btw)

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