JH>I need to build up an AMD Athlon system for my son for Christmas.
JH>I plan on putting either a 40GB or an 80GB HDD in there. His present
JH>'puter will be retired, and the OS he has is Win98SE.

JH>As I see it, to keep cluster sizes small,  best for the 40GB drive
JH>would be 15/15/10 or so, formatted to FAT32. I don't think he would
JH>want or need  any smaller subdivisions than that.

JH>In case of the 80 GB drive, looks to me like he would be best off
JH>to upgrade to an OS which will support NTFS.

JH>Comments, corrections and suggestions are invited.

Jim, from my personal experience he would be far better off to go with
XP Home or preferably XP Pro. Both have so much more compatibility with
more devices than any previous Windows versions. With XP and an 80 Gb
drive formatted NTFS, cluster size doesn't really matter much. The only
fly in the ointment is the possibility that some of his current
applications may not work with XP.

Jay
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