"Tim Sprout" wrote in message


I read some posts on microsoft.public.win2000.general
newsgroup. Apparently, the best course to go from FAT32
to NTFS, is to back up my data drive, reformat,
and restore. Converting an existing partition from the
command line automatically uses
the smallest available cluster size of 512 bytes, which
leads to a slow down in
performance due to increased fragmentation because there
are more clusters per file.

NTFS at 512 byte clusters isn't all that bad.

But you're right, the NTFS Convert command is sorta brain
dead in the cluster-sizing department.