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MARJAI - 04 Mar 2004 03:59 GMT

IS THIS GOOD OR BAD FOR MY COMPUTER?

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Ron Badour - 04 Mar 2004 04:19 GMT

Good

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> IS THIS GOOD OR BAD FOR MY COMPUTER?

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Tim Slattery - 04 Mar 2004 13:57 GMT

>IS THIS GOOD OR BAD FOR MY COMPUTER?

If you have a very large disk drive, it's good. FAT16 partitions can
be no larger than 2.1GB, but FAT32 partitions can be immense (though
they usually top out at 30-50GB). With the new huge disk drives, that
can make the difference between needing to partition it into ten or
fifteen pieces, and being able to use int as one or two very large
chunks.

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