Topic: Incorrect Free Space Being Reported On F: Drive? (Read 36 times)

1hotjob · « **on:** December 02, 2006, 08:32:00 AM »

It looks like you created an F drive over 250 gigs. If it wasn't formatted using 32k clusters you are in for data corruption, as it looks like now.

The only thing I can think of to fix this is to get Xbpartitioner and reformat the F drive using 32k clusters.

robertrath · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2006, 01:05:00 AM »

Anyone else have any other ideas that don't involve reformatting? Has anyone else had this problem? Cheers

alphaomega · « **Reply #2 on:** December 07, 2006, 09:39:00 AM »

Would you get the same corruption with a 250GB drive ? if you dont format with 32K clusters ?

theperfekt001 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2006, 03:46:00 PM »

You shouldn't...Only with partitions over 256gb.

For more info, read this post by lordvader129.

alphaomega · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:44:00 AM »

QUOTE(theperfekt001 @ Dec 8 2006, 10:53 PM)

You shouldn't...Only with partitions over 256gb.

For more info, read this post by lordvader129.

QUOTE(robertrath @ Dec 9 2006, 12:16 AM)

Cheers for the link

From me also

robertrath · « **Reply #5 on:** December 11, 2006, 02:10:00 AM »

Well guys I ended up backing up as much as I could and reformatting it with XBpartitioner over the weekend. Backing up was tedious over a network and would stop/fail every 5-10 mins (over 200GB of files...). When it failed I had to disable then re-enable my network adaptor on my pc and get it going again.

But now after all that heart ache copying it all back has been a breeze so far, not a single hiccup and nothing causing it to fault or pause. Thanks again 1hotjob and sorry I didn't seem thankful enough earlier

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