From: "Frank Haber" 

I have no firsthand experience with FAT32==>NTFS conversions under 2000.
 And you can *help* me by saying just why these conversions don't work out
as well as those done under XP.

The "technical detail" I hoped for was from your inside
perspective, on just what this mysterious sector-cluster
"alignment" thing is, how it fits in with the various
extended-ATA schemes, what the boundaries are, etc.  I'm unable to see how
data alignment would help perfomance on a physical medium with varying
cluster sizes, granularity that bears little relation to cylinders, layered
sector translation schemes, etc.  Lacking that, I'd just like an
explanation of what XP's aligned formatting is supposed to be doing.

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