Help formatting second hard drive for audio files

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Pier Calacino

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I hope someone can help me with this?

How do I format my audio hard drive to use 32 bit cluster size?

Who knows how to do this with windows 2000 and guide me through it.

I appreciate all the help I can get !

thanks for your time"
Pier Calacino
 
Are you still hung up on this?

First of all, you're thinking either 32K or 64K cluster size (e.g. kilobytes, not bits).

Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management

Right click on the partition you want to format. If it's unpartitioned, then choose to partition it.

From the Format dialog (that will appear after choosing format), select:

Volume Label: <whatever you want>
File System: NTFS (or FAT32, but I prefer NTFS)
Allocation unit size: 32K (or 64K)

Click ok and the format will begin.

Slackmaster 2000
 
Hi Slackmaster 2000.

Thanks for responding and I am sorry and feel stupid.

But that's the whole problem ! My options from the drop down list for the allocation unit size are 1. Default 2. 512 3. 1024. That's all it shows """"

unless I am doing something wrong, which is very possible

WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

I am getting very frustrated with something that should be easy.

Pier
 
Go to a command prompt and enter this:

format X: /FS:FAT32 /A:32k

X is your drive. Use NTFS instead of FAT32 if that's what you want.
 
Pier,

Those are the options it gives you from the disk management tool? Remember that if you right click on the drive from "My Computer" you aren't presented with the same options.

My guess is that it's only giving you those options because the disk was previously formatted with FAT32. Try deleting the partition (basically the same steps as formatting) and creating a new partition, then formatting it. That'll probably work.

Or just try it from the command line as elevate mentioned!

Slackmaster 2000
 
Thanks Slackmaster2000,

Maybe between you and elevate I will get it done !!!!!

Thanks again
guys.

Pier
 
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