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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1847)	8/2/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

>> Can we do it with one large C drive and organize with directories or do we need to organize on separate drives/partitions? I know this is old territory...not asking for answers. I am still pondering this for my own design.<< One thought on this subject is with a 32 bit fat you are better off with one large C drive. Where as with a 16 bit fat you are better off with multiple partitions. Reason, with a 16 bit fat you are better off with a small cluster size so small files won't waste a lot of space. However, with a lot of partitions there will be unused space in each partition. I know there has to be catch some place but it appears a 32 bit fat gives you the best of both worlds small cluster size and no wasted space at the end of each partition.