FAT help

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robertbiferi

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I need some help understanding FAT types.

I know every FAT can support diferant size Hard Drives.
And I know the Default Cluster size of FAT 32 is 32 kB and the Default FAT size of NTFS is 4 kB

So I get how this works you allways go for the Smallest Cluster size and the FAT that will give you the smallest Cluster size.

But this is what I donb't understand??

Say you have a Hard Drive that is 350 MB
How do you findout what the Default Cluster size would be on a drive this size if you use
FAT 16 and FAT 32 and NTFS???????
Bforehand
Thanks
 
OK, I did some research on this, heres what I found: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365

For your hard drive, you have 4KB for the NTFS. The largest partition you have for FAT 32 is 32GB that is actaully 16KB cluster size, for the FAT16, the largest is 4GB and the cluster size is 64KB. Apparrently, you don't add them up as I did. I am guessing that you have three partitions n your hard drive? I say this because you can only have ONE format (obviously) per partition. So to my understanding for the NTFS, cluster size is 4KB, for FAT32 its 16KB, for FAT its 64KB.

Help any?
 
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