Hard Drive Setup

[msk]

Long ago, I saw a link here and it lead to a page that had hard drive setup information. In particular, there was an article on using Fdisk. This article gave all the hidden fdisk commands, such as the one allowing me to set the cluster size in each partition, it was an x or z field.

Anyone remember where I can find it?

[Nathan]

Here is some info on fdisk. I'm not sure if this is the place, but it's worth looking at it.

pcmech.pair.com/hdindex.htm (http://pcmech.pair.com/hdindex.htm)

Let us know if that helps or not. Good Luck!

[This message has been edited by Nathan (edited 03-24-99).]

[msk]

Alas, that location does not contain what I seek. I appreciate the link, but the fdisk commands are not analyzed there.

[Nathan]

OK! How about this site?

www.jacksonville.net/~jaginc/fdisk.htm (http://www.jacksonville.net/~jaginc/fdisk.htm)

[msk]

That page says "you can't change cluster size unless you have Win95b" and that I should settle for 4k clusters!

Now I feel like I am being a pest.... I want 16k clusters on the primary partition, I play a lot of games and hate intermittent jerks while loading [personal problem, I know].

Webcrawler only says 103 pages say 'fdisk' so I will review them when I get home from work.

Thanks for the help. I will keep looking.

[kwai]

you don't need win95osr2 to use fat32. you just need the fdisk and format utilities from osr2+. i'm pretty sure that you can specify the cluster size in the format command -- fdisk will just enable fat32 ("do you want to enable large disk support? yes/no"), but i would stick with 4k clusters if i were you. anyway, your cluster size will not affect jerky loading, but it will save you disk space if you have a lot of slack space. just be sure all your utilities support fat32.

for jerky loading (sounds funny, huh?) you should try to add more memory or increase your swap file size.

heres a faq on osr2 that will answer some of your questions i think:

http://www.compuclinic.com/osr2faq/

you can get a fat32 converter from here:

http://www.dentalaw.com/freestuff/files.html

it seems to be a microsoft util that they thought was too convenient and useful (and therefore should not be released to the public).

[msk]

comp clinic had the answer- thanks!

17 Mar 97 TIP#3:

it is the 'z' switch.... now to play with the computers at work [with permission, of course!]