About hard drives

CHEESEHEADMAN · Nov 30, 2004

Drive capacity Cluster size
0 up to 6 gb 4k
6 gb up to 16 gb 8k
16 gb up to 32 gb 16k
32 gb up to2048 gb 32k

Why do these cluster sizes change as the hard drive size changes?

What are the maximum hard drive sizes for fat16, fat32, and ntfs?
What causes these limitations to be diferant for each of the fa
systems?

Thanks CHEESEHEADMA

Ted Zieglar · Nov 30, 2004

The Internet can help you with your homework. For example, try this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=NTFS+"cluster+size"

Ted Zieglar

Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers · Nov 30, 2004

Hi,

See:

Description of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310525

Overview of FAT, HPFS, and NTFS File Systems
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=100108

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

R. C. White · Nov 30, 2004

Hi, CheeseHeadMan.

Here's a good place to start your homework. It's from the online version of
the WinXP Resource Kit:
File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

RC

About hard drives

CHEESEHEADMAN

Ted Zieglar

Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers

R. C. White