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To: Street Walker who wrote (2024)	8/21/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 14778

For HD's smaller than 2 gigs, you won't get any benifit converting your HD to Fat 32. If you want to convert to Fat 32, the converter is in your System Tools Folder.

To: Street Walker who wrote (2024)	8/22/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

>>Didn't see any FAT 32 window.<< The first thing I would do is determine the existing FAT system. You may already have FAT 32. Most Win 95 OSR2 installations use FAT 32. To check FAT go to my computer and right click the C drive and then click properties. My Opinion Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Leave your 2 gig drive FAT 16 if it is FAT 16 or leave it FAT 32 if it is now FAT 32 unless you want the advantage of the smaller clusters in FAT 32. As Sean mentioned (elaborated) FAT 32 makes more efficient use of disk space. The other side of the cluster size equation is the FAT size. >> FAT32 Performance Tradeoff: FAT32 Cluster Sizes and FAT Sizes pcguide.com << As the cluster size decreases the FAT size increases. From above link _____________________________________________________________________ FAT Type FAT16 FAT32 Cluster Size 32 KB 4 KB Number of FAT Entries 65,526 524,208 Size of FAT ~ 128 KB ~ 2 MB Still worse, if we increase the size of the FAT32 volume from 2 GB in size to 8 GB, the size of the FAT increases from around 2 MB to rather hefty 8 MB. The significance of this is not the fact that the FAT volume will have to waste several megabytes of space on the disk to hold the FAT (after all, it is saving far more space than that by reducing slack a great deal). The real problem is that the FAT is referred to a lot during normal use of the disk, since it holds all the cluster pointers for every file in the volume. Having the FAT greatly increase in size can negatively impact system speed. End quoted material _____________________________________________________________________ Zeuspaul