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Norton Utilities 5.01 Error Messages (Users)

posted by CluelessInSeattl, Seattle, USA, 14.08.2012, 00:30

> > I'm wondering if a clue to solving the problem might be found in that
> last
> > error message above; the one about "bytes per sector" and
> "bytes
> > per cluster". Could it be that I need to reformat the HD with
> > different cluster sizes or something like that?
>
> If you now have Norton Utilities v8.0 that shouldn't be a problem.
Hi ron!

I haven't yet figured out how to get NU8 installed onto my DOS laptop. So it'll be a while before I have that up and running.

But, in the meantime, I think I've figured out what the problem is. I found a web page that shows how cluster size increases with partition size:

Partition size FAT16 Cluster size
0 - 127 MB 2 KB = 2048 B
128 - 255 MB 4 KB = 4096 B
256 - 511 MB 8 KB = 8192 B
512 - 1023 MB 16 KB = 16384 B
1024 - 2047 MB 32 KB = 32768 B


Sorry: The formatting on that table got messed up and I don't know how to fix it. You can see it here:
http://www.mdgx.com/secrets.htm#FAT32.

Well, I've got the 4 GB HD divided into two partitions of 2 GB each, so the cluster size is going to be 32 KB, right?

And what did that NU error message tell me?

"NDD will not work with drives having more than 8K bytes per sector or 16K bytes per cluster"

Bingo!

I need to reduce my partitions to one gig each, right?

I used to have a program called Partition Magic. I wonder if I can find it.

But, I probably should go back and reformat and repartition from scratch, don't you think?

---
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
Running MS-DOS 6.21

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