Re:Ok, this one has been boggling me for a while, and since people in this thread seem to know Ghost and Win2K, I have a question.
I have upgraded my HDDs to Dynamic Disks, I have a 10GB C: (1st Drive, 1st Partition), a 24GB D: that is a stripe of the next 12GB on Drive 1 and all of Drive 2, and then I have an E: that is the last 8GB of Drive 1. The non striped volumes are all Simple Volumes. I made a .gho of C: after running Sysprep (which works great BTW), and when I tried to restore it to the same machine Norton Ghost wouldn't let me overwrite Partition 1 (My C:). It recognized that they were dynamic disks, but unless I missed a step somewhere, am I right in that Ghost cannot handle writing to Dynamic Disks?
Did that all make sense? I'm just looking for more information on using Ghost with NTFS partitions, and with Dynamic Disks. Thanks much!
Re:I read in the docs that u can change the scuster size of Fat32 in partition magic but the NTFS partitions's advanced option of cluster adjustments is ghosted!!
and from what I read, it sais the only way to change clusters in a NTFS patition is during format, as a added option to the command.
That is therefore making it known that you must set the NTFS cluster option at the formating stage.
It goes on to say that when you install windows 2000 you begin an Fat partition and later in the Instalation it is converted to NTFS partition… so it further confuses me DAMN DAMN…
someone said here on the forums that he setup his system without a dual boot ( without either OS being in any way connected with the otyher) and therefore no shared programs and he found after many instalations it is the only way to go. maybe his way the Instalation can be more controlled and each one done with a flopy disk instalation. I just want to end up with a 4k cluster in my NTFS partitions. The fat partitions I understand.
I hoped to find someone who has already solved thee NTFS 4k cluster or to be pointed to some minimal reading to discover it.
Example:
Say I reformat my win2k Advanced ServerPro Partition and format it into 4k clusters. Will the win2k new instalation revert it to Fat and back to NTFS clusters of its choosing? Or if I restore onto the 4k clustered NTFS partition the saved by Ghost Image of the NTFS partition win2k ASP, will it not reverse it to the 512 NTFS bites cluster it presently defaulted to by the Instalation? and kill my 4k NTFS cluster?!@#$%$#@! *pulling my hair out LOL through tears *
Re:Tungfree: you can do that with partition magic
Re:guy Thank you for sharing your tips with the community.
Re:I will need to check the ghost Docs to see. I did notice that my win98 somehow defaulted to 4k clusters!!! luckie for me. so when I restored ghost's image to it to correct some screw up I did that was unfixable, it reverted of course to 4k clusters (no way of telling from that Try — LOL)
I must say Norton Ghost ROCKS!!! speed wise it is a deamon…
Re:oh i thot default cluster size was 32k or something not 512bytes
Re:Thanks a bunch.I toast you with a fresh cup of java.
Re:repply it was tested to be so.
leme see now 512 goes 8 times into 4k and 1 k goes 4 times into 4k so it looks like 4k is fewer than 512 or 1k.
Leme count again one two three four…
All together now LOL
Re:how does changing your cluster size to 4k make it faster? there are WAY more clusters to look thru so it would be slower…
Re:Thankyou very much indeed for taking the trouble to post this.
Re:Sorry, I don't really know the answer to your question. I have never tried it. I heard in NT you could make a backup of a partition, reformat the partition to change the cluster size, and then put it back. I also heard it doesn't work in 2k.
I have used Ghost to move partitions, but I have never tried moving to a differently formatted partition. Sounds like it could work though — I wonder if any Ghost gurus are around 
Sounds like something that should be the ghost documentation somewhere.
Re:seeing u know so much I have a question or more to ask:
I formated several partitions 2 in NTFS and 3 in Fat32 but at the time I did not notice Partition Magic has a right click feature of selecting the 4k clusters which I need in both NTFS and Fat32, I read it becomes 5X faster that way.
I backed up with Norton Ghost my present instalations of both win98 (non 4k clusters) and win2k ASP (non 4k clusters)
can I change the clusters without a reformat? and not loose my stuff? If I reformat to 4k clusters and restore Norton Ghost backup Image, will it revert the present non 4k clusters?
I know I could test it but so much sweeter if it was done b4.
I need 4k clusters in both Fat32 and NTFS partitions.
Re:Wow, thanks for the tips. You really are well versed in win 2k. May be there is some truth to your name (guy) if you can type this much in a forum.
Re:Whoah, are you like the official Windows 2000 guru or something?
I'm going to save this one and print it out for when I mess up my 'box again, thanks!!
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