Question about viewing the disk allocation unit size of a disk

I have created a primary disk on a Windows 2003 OS post installation with the
disk allocation unit size of 64k instead of the default of 512k. The disk is
working fine but my Question how do I check to see if it's really 64k
allocation unit size.

Is there a tool within the OS that would let me display the disk partition
and show the disk allocation unit size?

Thanks,

 

Hello
Have you tried, right click on Mycomputer, properties, manage, disk manager?
or you can check at boot up/raid configuration etc..

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Isaac Oben [MCTIP:EA, MCSE]
"criechton" <criechton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have created a primary disk on a Windows 2003 OS post installation with
>the
> disk allocation unit size of 64k instead of the default of 512k. The disk
> is
> working fine but my Question how do I check to see if it's really 64k
> allocation unit size.
>
> Is there a tool within the OS that would let me display the disk partition
> and show the disk allocation unit size?
>
> Thanks,

 

yes I have but it doesn't show it at all.

"Isaac Oben [MCITP,MCSE]" wrote:

> Hello
> Have you tried, right click on Mycomputer, properties, manage, disk manager?
> or you can check at boot up/raid configuration etc..
>
> --
> Isaac Oben [MCTIP:EA, MCSE]
> "criechton" <criechton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9D22A1BC-0981-4A49-B546-BDDA5F25BA0C@microsoft.com...
> >I have created a primary disk on a Windows 2003 OS post installation with
> >the
> > disk allocation unit size of 64k instead of the default of 512k. The disk
> > is
> > working fine but my Question how do I check to see if it's really 64k
> > allocation unit size.
> >
> > Is there a tool within the OS that would let me display the disk partition
> > and show the disk allocation unit size?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
>

 

Who is your hardware manufacturer, atleast for dell and hp there is a server
manager where you can go see all these

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Isaac Oben [MCTIP:EA, MCSE]
"criechton" <criechton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AEEABFDE-3321-4871-AACE-0D16E0C1756F@microsoft.com...
> yes I have but it doesn't show it at all.
>
> "Isaac Oben [MCITP,MCSE]" wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> Have you tried, right click on Mycomputer, properties, manage, disk
>> manager?
>> or you can check at boot up/raid configuration etc..
>>
>> --
>> Isaac Oben [MCTIP:EA, MCSE]
>> "criechton" <criechton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9D22A1BC-0981-4A49-B546-BDDA5F25BA0C@microsoft.com...
>> >I have created a primary disk on a Windows 2003 OS post installation
>> >with
>> >the
>> > disk allocation unit size of 64k instead of the default of 512k. The
>> > disk
>> > is
>> > working fine but my Question how do I check to see if it's really 64k
>> > allocation unit size.
>> >
>> > Is there a tool within the OS that would let me display the disk
>> > partition
>> > and show the disk allocation unit size?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>>
>>

 

"criechton" <criechton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9D22A1BC-0981-4A49-B546-BDDA5F25BA0C@microsoft.com...
>I have created a primary disk on a Windows 2003 OS post installation with
>the
> disk allocation unit size of 64k instead of the default of 512k. The disk
> is
> working fine but my Question how do I check to see if it's really 64k
> allocation unit size.
>
> Is there a tool within the OS that would let me display the disk partition
> and show the disk allocation unit size?
>
> Thanks,

Run "chkdsk" from the C command prompt. No paramaters (read only mode).

-Frank