Save my day! utility that let me format to ntfs 32 kb cluster size!

[oqvist]

Can´t afford PM 8.0 or other payware

fdisk only format FAT32 it looks like

 

[Igthorn]

Command line format in windows 2k, and probably xp as well.

from windows help file:
format volume [/fs:file-system] [/a:unitsize]

volume:

Specifies the mount point, volume name, or drive letter of the drive you want to format. If you do not specify any of the following switches, format uses the volume type to determine the default format for the disk.

/fs:file-system

Specifies the file system to use, FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. Floppy disks can use only the FAT file system.

/a:unitsize

Specifies the allocation unit size to use on FAT, FAT32, or NTFS volumes. Use one of the following values for unitsize. If unitsize is not specified, it will be chosen based on volume size.

512 Creates 512 bytes per cluster.
1024 Creates 1024 bytes per cluster.
2048 Creates 2048 bytes per cluster.
4096 Creates 4096 bytes per cluster.
8192 Creates 8192 bytes per cluster.
16K Creates 16 kilobytes per cluster.
32K Creates 32 kilobytes per cluster.
64K Creates 64 kilobytes per cluster.

 

[oqvist]

Hi!

The problem was apparently that the drive I wanted to format was the master and thus got the C extention so win xp obviously didn´t like that. Doing a third win xp install of the day with the 2nd harddrive as master let me reformat my main harddrive It took like 2 seconds formatting for 32 kb cluster size?