Re: FAT32 Temp drive in an NTFS system?
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 10/20/04
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:46:26 +0100
RFodor wrote:
>Alex, I have a separate external firewire 120GB HD that is NTFS, and
>it has all kinds of problems. It seems to constantly need a chkdsk /f
>or chkdsk /r, and when I run chkdsk on it, all kinds of files
>conveniently get "thrown away" during the chkdsk. By this I mean that
>files that I used to have are now gone after the chkdsk. I don't know
>how NTFS works; all I know is that when I see the chkdsk NTFS error
>messages whizzing by the screen during the chkdsk, I know I'm gonna
>have files disappear. ANNOYING AS HELL!
>
>The point is that I'm not sure I trust NTFS, what with the additional
>overhead such as indexing, additional files properties, etc. SO, why
>bother with NTFS on a drive that is strictly a temporary drive
>(~2.5GB)?
>
>BTW, it formats with 1k clusters. I always thought, too, that it had
>to be 4k,
There is I think something weird with either the hardware of that drive
or the way it got set up. It ought *not* to be getting those troubles
if it is OK and as a first step I would get a makers diagnostic to run
on it - and possibly then take it to a repair shop for assessment.
Whatever set up the drive is distinctly unusual; any normal formatting
to NTFS direct under XP should give 4 K clusters for a drive that size;
conversion from FAT 32 very often gives 512 byte. 4K is optimal as it
matches the internal memory management page of the Intel architecture
CPUs, hence removing a lot of need for buffering transfers to/from the
disk.
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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