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fdisk 64mb+
Name: oioi Date: October 14, 2002 at 16:08:46 Pacific OS: win2k CPU/Ram: 1800, 512
Comment:
When you have a big harddrive, each little files take very big space, like 1kb taking 16 or 64kb, which becomes gigs when you have many 1000s of them. How do you avoid it? Making smaller partions only?
Im partioning up my 80 gig drive with fat32 win98 and ntfs win2k, does it matter which goes 1st?
and can i use the boot disks i make with the cds or are they to old? Heard fdisk dont recognise harddrives bigger then 64gigs, but only found windows and not dos fdisk for that.
Name: Sterling_Aug Date: October 14, 2002 at 17:13:28 Pacific
Reply:
FAT16 uses 4k as the minimum file allocation, FAT32 uses only 1K allocations so it wastes less space. NTFS is more secure and managable for file sharing.
Summary: How do I run Fdisk, to remove the active status and then partition a second hard drive that I intend to connect to my current W2K Pro system? I think I read where I could only do it with Win98 system ...
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