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Date Posted: 02:30:05 10/22/02 Tue
Author: Rock
Subject: Re: fdisk - please reply ASAP !
In reply to: Dark 's message, "Re: fdisk - please reply ASAP !" on 02:16:56 10/22/02 Tue

>Well I am probably too late.. but 2 reasons for having
>multiple partitions.. are:
>
>1: less space for your fat to divide up.. means
>smaller cluster sizes.. which means more efficient use
>of space..
>
>2: less fragmentation.. as you dont have everything
>dumped on the one spot..
>
>Reasons for 1 total partition.
>
>You dont have to worry about which drive something is
>installed on.. some things wont let you install on
>another drive.. has to be C:.. stuff like that

Not surprisingly you're not too late as I had to use a linux partition manager to physically force the entire contents to rewrite to zero as I think the entire problem was a corrupted MBR on the drive..

fragmentation I can handle, but how do I tell the installer what cluster sizes to use?

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