Re: Volume Marked as RAW?



You might check the documentation of the tool you used but basically it
means no file system or unformatted and is referred to as a raw partition.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Will" wrote:
|I have an application that uses thousands of many small files (typically
| under 200 bytes per file). As an experiment I wanted to try creating an
| NTFS volume whose allocation units are the minimum size of 512 bytes and
| seeing if that would speed up the use of these small files. I created a
| 588 MB test volume and formatted it NTFS specifying 512 Bytes as the
| allocation unit sizing. After a quick format, the volume is showing up
as
| "RAW" type and not NTFS.
|
| Can someone explain what RAW type is, and why this is happening?
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| Will
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