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To: PMS Witch who wrote (2453)	3/21/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (2) of 110648

Steven and PW: Thanks for your answers. I do find this stuff interesting and I would like to learn more. I wonder why they couldn't have started with FAT 32 in the first place, and why they needed such large clusters if they were potentially so wasteful. Seems FAT 16 must have something still going for it though, since that is what you have to use for NT if you don't want to use NTFS (or maybe there is some other, legacy-type issue?). I'm reading now a basic, and many say classic text on computer architecture and design "Computer Organization and Design", by Henderson and Patterson. It's amazing how quickly the book takes you into instruction sets and low-level languages. Now I know what a bit is! Wish I had more time (and energy) for this. On another topic, this may be of interest to someone: I mistakenly erased one of my drives a while ago and thought there might be some way to recover the data (some of which was important to me). So, I asked around and someone told me of a DOS program called "unformat". I got a-hold of that but it wouldn't work since it was 16-bit and my drive was FAT 32 (or, I presume that was the reason). Then someone on the Dream thread recommended I check out "Lost and Found" by PowerQuest (the makers of Partition Magic). I did and I bought it and today I finally used it and it worked perfectly!! Quite amazing to see it run and do the job. The program costs about $50 for a single-user license (this restricts you to using it on only one computer: PowerQuest is known for being restrictive like this. I called the company and the lady I talked to said that I can use the same program (on floppy) on any drive as long as the drive I originally used the program on is installed in the same computer. Which is not really so bad -- but I'll believe it when I see it). There was one consequence of the job however: now I want to re-partition the disk that had the lost and recovered info, but I can't access 500MB of space on that disk -- which is exactly the amount of space that was in the erased drive. Gonna call PQ Monday. wily

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