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This is the algorithm I'm using to determine a drive's cluster size based on its size: Rough cluster size is drive size divided by 65536 Convert rough cluster size to binary Count number of digits in binary number (starting with first '1') Actual cluster size is 2 raised to the power of the number of digits above Is there anything wrong with this *other* than it not taking into account the 12-bit FAT of a <16MB drive? The reason I ask is because I have a 60MB FAT partition with 2048 byte clusters, but according to my reasoning, it should have only 1024 byte clusters. I shrunk it down from 100MB with PartitionMagic (1.0), but I also reformatted the drive. Is the cluster size still being affected by what PartitionMagic did, or is my algorithm (and hence my understanding of FAT) flawed? --- RG 10-5 Exp/GE 1.02+* Origin: The Licking Factory, OS/2 in NJ! (908)815-3146 (1:107/634) SEEN-BY: 50/99 270/101 620/243 711/401 409 410 413 430 808 809 934 955 SEEN-BY: 712/407 515 517 628 713/888 800/1 7877/2809 @PATH: 107/634 677 696 411 270/101 712/515 711/808 809 934 |
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