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Does anyone know how many clusters a 40GB Maxtor drive has?

Currently letting windows do its thing with a dying drive, Trying to get atleast a small amount of data recovered. And its just replaced cluster 21507, Just wondering if you know how many there are so i can estimate a time.

Cos its been 8 Days so far :D
 
ROFL

Well, assuming a 4kB cluster size, it doesn't look good my friend...

40GB = 40,000,000 kB

40,000,000 / 4 = 10,000,000 clusters :eek:

(of course, there'll be space loss due to formatting, then the FAT etc etc)

EDIT -My 60GB disk @ work has 14,623,166 allocation units.
 
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Depends on the format used to format the drive. It's also possible to set a custom cluster size I think, although virtually all drives would use the default. Have a look here to see the default cluster sizes:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_lxty.asp

Looking at that, it doesn't look good for you (although I may well be missing something):

A 40GB disk is 40x1000x1000 kb (remembering that disks are sold as base 10, not 2.) So, there are 40,000,000 kb on your disk. Using the default cluster size of 4kb for an NTFS partition 40GB in size, means 10,000,000 clusters!!! :o

Don't take my word for it though.

Edit: damn - far too slow! Least he agrees with me though!
 
Lets take that maths a little further...

10,000,000 clusters, a 21,000 per 8 days.

10,000,000/21,000 = (approx) 500...

500*8 days = 4000 days.

at 365 days a year....

= around 10 years or so...

(unless my math is wonky - which it likely is...:p)

lol
 
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cluster size defautls at 16 or 32kb if i remember. bade sectors can have irregulat cluster sizes also i think like decimal sizes lol.
 
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