I have a Home Theatre PC with Windows 2000 Pro and an 80GB hard drive. The drive is in two partitions, one for the OS and all programs, and the other exclusively for recordings. This means my average ...

Before discussing the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk” in detail, let’s see the basic differences between these terms. Here, I will also show you some calculations that will give the exact ...

A Cluster is the smallest unit to save and manage files on the disk in the Windows OS. One cluster can only hold one file, even if it is only one byte. When you need to save small files, configure a ...

We're getting ready to install a RAID-5 (data) and (RAID-1 OS) in an existing system that will be converted from NT4 to 2003. What is the ideal size for a file server in terms of RAID cluster size?

The first file system to be used in a Microsoft operating system was the FAT system, which uses a file allocation table. This table is an index that creates a list of disk contents to record the ...

Recently, I have accumulated quite a bit of data as a result of a video project that I have been working on, and therefore made the decision to expand a Windows volume to give myself a bit of extra ...