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- At 03:22 AM 4/11/96 -0400, you wrote:
- Under Win95 and VFAT, I couldn't believe the size of
- >>each cluster. Even a 1K file would appear to use 4K or MUCH more. With a
- >>lot of 3D object files and news group messages waiting to be archived, my
- >>1.8 GB drive would almost always sit below 900MB available with only 450MB
- >>actually being used. Once NT 3.51 arrived, I converted the 1.8GB drive to
- >>NTFS and instantly got back 200MB due to NTFS's smaller cluster size. To
- >
- >Can Win95 read an NTFS format???
- >
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- Alternatively, try using Partition Magic, a commercial product (about $50)
- from Powerquest. It not only allows you to repartition your HD at any time
- w/o reformatting, it will dynamically resize your clusters to the optimal
- size. Saved me almost 300 Mb on my 1023 SCSI drive; one of the best (and
- easiest to use) utilities I've ever run across...
-
- John.
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- John Prusinski/CyberGrafix
- jprusins@cybergrafix.com
- http://www.cybergrafix.com/
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- "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of Truth and
- Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." A. Einstein
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