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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11483)11/14/2000 8:48:03 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
why would the computer be partitioned into 3 drives (C,D,E) yet only ever use one? Why not just have one drive?

The maximum size a partition could be when you use a FAT16 file system is 2 gigabytes. Hence who ever originally partitioned your hard disk had to split it up into a minimum of 3 partitions. However, a 2 gigabyte FAT16 partition is very inefficient at storing small files. I don't know if you looked but you should have a lot more free space on your C partition after your converted it to a FAT32 file system.
In the old days when FAT16 was king there were good reasons to have multiple partitions on a hard disk. But if you convert all of your hard disk to a 32 bit file system there is no valid reason to have multiple partitions. If you convert your hard disk from 3 partitions to 1 partition you will need to use a program like Partition Magic if you don't want to reinstall Windows 98 and all of your software.
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