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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2025)	8/21/1998 10:23:00 AM
From: Lost in New York	Respond to of 14778

For HD's smaller than 2 gigs, you won't get any benifit converting your HD to Fat 32. Don't you get a smaller cluster size? for example: a 1 gig disk will have 16k clusters the old way and 4k clusters under FAT32. I'll have to look when I get home. Dave

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2025)	8/21/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

<bFor 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. This is absolutely false. Any Partion over 256M can benefit from FAT32's increased effeciency.... Sean

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2025)	8/21/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

>HD smaller than 2 gigs, won't benifit from Fat 32< That's what the instruction book said. I have a 2.1 gig. Should I do the conversion? S.W.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2025)	8/21/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

SW, listen to Sean, he knows what he's talking about. Fat 32 will benefit you immediately and unconditionally both in disk space and performance. The only caveat would be if you must access your Win 98 partitions from NT for some reason (and that reason will exit sooner or later -- Microsoft promises sooner, so you can bet on later, but nevertheless it will happen). Spots <edit> PS. Sorry, Sire, I meant this message for Street Walker and posted to you by mistake. I apologize.