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Hello Donna,

As a matter of interest to me, please may I ask you a favour? Can you say if your 
drives are partitioned at all and whether they are or not, would you be so good as 
to go to each drive in turn and type chkdsk to see the cluster size, i.e. the number 
of bytes per allocation unit.

You can do this in a DOS window.

C:\WINDOWS>chkdsk

C:\WINDOWS>D: , and press Enter

D:\>chkdsk

And so on.

Mine reads "4096 bytes in each allocation unit" on all four drives. This is the same 
as NTFS.

FYI , 4096 bytes is reckoned to be the optimum cluster size.

You can obtain this cluster size on a FAT32 volume using: A:\>format c: /Z:8

My ME computer runs MUCH better since I have partitioned and made this the default 
cluster size. The same is true for 98 Operating Systems.

It is recommended to partition drives with fdisk with a maximum of four partitions 
per physical drive.
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