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re: Why FAT16?!?!?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3490 messages posted)

|[...]a FAT16 partition sized from 512 to 1023 MB would have 16 KB clusters
| DNA
|
True. I must have been thinking of ancient HDD sizes.

|A FAT32 partition from 512 MB to 8 GB would have a cluster size of 4 KB
|
Also true.
Now I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how my required space went *down*
when I backed up from my FAT32 HDD to my FAT16 thumbdrive.

Written in response to:: Why FAT16?!?!? (DNA: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:14 pm)

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3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Mon, May 21, 2007, 2:08 pm)

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re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:02 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Keith Stanier: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:09 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:38 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:20 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Ed: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:06 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (gewg_: Tue, May 22, 2007, 4:46 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks -- Complete crap from Ed (DNA: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:48 pm)

Thread hijack: FAT16/FAT32 on a thumbdrive (gewg_: Wed, May 23, 2007, 8:57 am)

Why FAT16?!?!? (DNA: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:14 pm)

re: Why FAT16?!?!? (gewg_: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:35 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:04 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (dhm: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:39 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Tue, May 22, 2007, 8:44 pm)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Don: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:06 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Wed, May 23, 2007, 6:56 am)

re: 3.5 floppy will not format disks (Bobbie: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:16 pm)

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