About hard drives

[CHEESEHEADMAN]

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]

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]

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]

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