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From: skl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How does one change a drive's cluster size?
Summary: Disk Manager can do it.
Keywords: Cluster, Seagate, Disk Manager, Partition
Message-ID: <1086@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 27 Jul 90 08:39:19 GMT
References: <10114@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: Samuel Lam <skl@wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Balliffe Intersystem, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <10114@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kath@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William L. Kath)
 wrote:
>Will Seagate's utility (OnTrack?) do the job?

The version of Disk Manager (from OnTrack) that is usually packaged
with Seagate's "large" (> 32meg) drives will do the job.  Just make
sure you run it in manual mode to get to the necessary menus.

>I'd like to just re-format the one partition if possible, ...

You should be able to back up that partition, then knock (just) it out
with Disk Manager, then create a new Disk Manager partition in its
place and high-level format that, and then restore your files into the
new and improved (Disk Manager) partition.  Don't forget to swtich to
using Disk Manager's dmdrvr.bin driver in config.sys before you attempt
to access the new partition though.

>What cluster size should I expect with each of the above approaches?  

Disk Manager allows you to choose from a variety of cluster sizes when
you use it in manual mode.

Hope the above helps some.

...Sam
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