mean6 Posted August 23, 2006 Posted August 23, 2006 I just used partition magic to resize the clusters on my raid 0 setup on my Maxtor drives, and I got an error 1681 compressed or sparse files. I did a search and came up with this solution from the norton website If the error occurs on a Windows NT or Windows 2000 system, or if turning off System Restore in XP does not solve the problem, perform the following: In Windows, open a command prompt window. Change to the root directory of the affected drive. Type the following at the command prompt: compact /u /s /a /i /f *.* I did that, and it was successful changing the cluster size to 16. Later on, I used winrar to decompress a 700mb video file, and it took almost a minute to do. Before, it would only take me 4 secs. I defragmented the hard drive, and ran benchmarks and everything seems fine. I ended up formatting the array even, and still no luck. I also noticed that the transfer rate (transferring a file from my raptors to the maxtors) took extremely long even when it was just mp3 files. I changed the cluster size back to the default of 4, and still no luck. I am stumped on this one. Anyone have any ideas what happened? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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