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At 04:46 PM 10/2/97 -0600, Dean Cashen wrote: >Randal Whittle wrote: >> >> The key feature here, as far as Partition Magic goes, is that it lets you >> effortlessly "convert" (assuming you have the OS support for it) from FAT16 >> to FAT32 and back. > >Not only that, but it allows you to split a disk into partitions >without data loss. This is particularly helpful on FAT16 systems >because you can split a drive into smaller partitions and gain >efficiency (space) by making each partition small enough so the >cluster size can be reduced (example: A drive that's 1 to 2GB in size Err...I thought that goes without saying. That's the main point of Partition Magic to begin with! The rest of this stuff is just icing on the cake. >> I've had really mixed reaction to this FAT32 stuff. At first, I thought >> it was great, but I really notice the performance hit it creates. Every >> machine I've put it on, I have also ended up changing it back to FAT16 >> sooner or later. I figure the disk space is cheap, so I haven't the need >> to get chintzy with it. > >While I've read, and understand that there could be a performance >ding, I haven't noticed it on the Thinkpad (I use standard PC >apps, Word and such, along with graphics editors and some >compilers). I'll bet you're doing more disk-intensive work, is >that so? Hell, just loading up Windows 95 is disk-intensive work! ;-) The machines I've used Fat32 on (and gone back to Fat16 eventually) were all desktops. I never put Fat 32 on my TP560. In general, laptops are a fair bit slower--especially in the HD area--than desktops. So it stands to reason you may not even notice the performance hit on a latptop. ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California