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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (5825)	2/3/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Clarence, there's a subtle zone between (about) 1020 mb and 1024 mb in which most of this software (including NT Disk Manager) gets confused. I can only guess, but my guess is that it comes from figuring partition sizes without allowing for overhead. I tried FAT partitions of 1023 mb in NT disk manager and found it generated 32k clusters (bad). Reduced it to 1020mb and generated 16k clusters (good). You may be seing a variation of this problem, for all I know. You DO want to have one or the other of the following situations (and PM should tell you which you have): (1) An approximately 1gig partition with 16k clusters (2) An approximately 2 gig partition with 32k clusters You do NOT want a 1 gig partition with 32k clusters. You will waste a lot of space. Spots

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