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    Question about creating the UEFI Boot Drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by hslayer, Jun 3, 2015.

  1. hslayer

    hslayer Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys,

    I am in the process of creating the UEFI Boot drive for fresh install of windows 8.1

    Now I was following all the instructions in this picture
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    but for some reason my default cluster size is 16 kilobytes instead of 4096 bytes that is shown in the picture.
    why is this? and how can i fix this?

    Thank you
     
    hslayer, Jun 3, 2015
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  2. pete962

    pete962 Notebook Evangelist

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    FAT32 has different default cluster size for different disk size to save space, so default 4kb is used up to 8GB and then goes up to 8KB and then 16KB, as if using larger disk, but you should be able to manually change it to 4k if you want (and waste more space for allocation table) unless you hit the limit of maximum number of entries and for 4KB cluster size you reach maximum number at 1TB if I'm not mistaken and at that point you have to use larger cluster size.
     
    pete962, Jun 3, 2015
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  3. woodzstack

    woodzstack Alezka Computers , Official Clevo reseller.

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    Great job, I linked to this in a recent thread just now when i saw it. very useful for those who do not know.
     
    woodzstack, Jun 10, 2015
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