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To: Street Walker who wrote (2032)	8/21/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 14778

That's what the instruction book said. I have a 2.1 gig. Should I do the conversion? I have a 10 gig 7200 RPM HD, and I am leaving it alone for now, but if you are interested in converting your HD to Fat 32 I will find the articles and post them.

To: Street Walker who wrote (2032)	8/21/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Sire, don't mean to be disrespectful but your wrong here.... Here are the simple facts. Drive Size: Fat16 Cluster Size: > 1024M 32K 512M - 1024M 16K 256M-512M 8K 128M-256M 4K etc... What this means is that a 1Byte file will take up a minimum 16K on say an 800M drive. With FAT32 you get 4K clusters by default and can manually adjust the cluster size even smaller. This results in huge savings in space regardless of whether your drive is 512M or 2G. Obviosuly you get more space savings on Larger drives. Typically on a 2G drive I have reclaimed 350+M of space. Maybe your confused in that FAT16 allows upto 2 gig logical drives where fat32 elininates that barrier and allows very large logical drives. All this is clearly represented in any of Powerquest product manuals like Partition Magic. Do you want me to find the studies and post them? Oh BTW look in your Win98 owners manual, it confrims this as well yes because we should correct the people posting this false info... Sean