RelaX

I recently got a new HD and reinstalled win98, but when I tryed to defrag the primary partition, it kept whining about needing more memory (error: defrag009) even though it fragmented the second partition (equal size: 40 Gb) without any problems.

After some searching I found out that it was due to my clustersize, it had been put to 8 Kb per cluster on the primary partition and 32 Kb on the secondary. Microsoft recommends 32 Kb for HDs over 32 Gb. I tryed to use Partition Magic to change it, but it says that it finds a file that isn't in the FAT format of something...

So to conclude, I was wondering if any of you know how I can defrag (and scandisk) my HD. I was thinking of a bootdisk with the DOS version of defrag, or making a ghost of my partition to the other one, reformatting the primary to 32K cluser size and put the ghost image back. But I was hoping there was a better way, mostly because I don't feel like taking either measure.

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hrdwareguy

Last time I checked, if you restore a ghost image, it restores the hard drive exactly as it was when the image was created. This would restore your 8K cluster size.

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RelaX

really? damn... I never did work much with ghosts so it's good I asked then... thanks for your reply.

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