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Thread ID: 24075	2002-09-03 00:35:00	Cluster size on hard disk	Endee (1734)	Press F1

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75976	2002-09-03 00:35:00	I have a 30gb hard drive, partitioned C: (8gb) and D: (22gb) both are FAT32 but seem to have different cluster sizes. C: drive is 4kb and D: is 16kb. Does anyone know if there is a reason for this. I would have thought that they would have identical cluster sizes.	Endee (1734)
75977	2002-09-03 02:08:00	The smaller the cluster size the better. Unfortunately there is a limit to the number of clusters that windows can handle in FAT format. If it was to allocate the smaller clusters to the larger drive, that number would be exceeded, so it has used the next size up....	godfather (25)
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