-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to ALL <=-

JH> Cross-posted in TECH and WIN95 Echoes

JH> Hello, ALL.

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.

16/16/8 is more efficient. Just FDISK and maxout the first partition and
same for the second, the third partition will use the rest of the disk.
That is of course if 98SE can see 16gig partitions.

L8r. ;) 

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