I am trying to format my 2nd hard drive that will be soley dedicated to my audio files. I have read that it is best to format this drive as a FAT32 drive, and that I should add a switch to the format command as:

format D: /z:64

to get 32K clusters.

Well, when I shell out to "DOS" (I know, it is not *really* DOS, but I am an old guy, and it looks like DOS), I get an error that says /z:64 is an "invalid parameter".

I remember some things from my DOS days, and typed "format /?" to get a list of acceptable commands, and the "/z" switch is not listed. There is a switch that lookes like it used to specify cluster size...I need to get a 32K cluster size, so what is should the parameter look like:

format D: /a:32 ?

or

format D: /a:64 ?

Since the /z command was supposed to use "64" to get a 32K cluster, I thought I'd better find out before I do this incorrectly.

I'd appreciate any help that is out there.

Thanks!

DH