Re: Use of FAT32 with WXP

"Jim Carlock" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The other big problem alleviated when converting from FAT32 to NTFS
involves the hard disk drive cluster/sector sizes. FAT32 tends to
start creating very large cluster/sector sizes after perhaps a 4GB
partition and NTFS works much better for hard disk drives greater than
4GB in size.

FAT32 creates only slightly larger cluster sizes after 8GB, 8k instead of 4k
for NTFS... Perhaps, you were thinking of FAT16 which uses much larger
cluster sizes?

I'm not sure of the specifics on where FAT32 starts creating huge
cluster sizes,

Huge? AFAICT (links below), it never does. Maximum is 16KB for FAT32, not
64KB of FAT16. I'd guess you're thinking of FAT16.

but it [FAT32 cluster size] tends to become astronomical at a point,

For FAT32? 16KB maximum?

These links are good sources on FAT and NTFS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/67321
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154997
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525


Rod Pemberton

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