Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode

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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:00

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"Aaron" <chaaron@lave.net> wrote:

>>I disagree, and so do you, Rod, since you deign to answer the post in
>>your next post...Hyper, a good post, and the only scenario that I
>>would add is that fragmentation also occurs as files (data, text) grow
>>in size, past increments of the cluster size, where the next cluster
>>is no longer available. This type of event is more likely on a FAT32
>>drive with its smaller clusters, if there are many smaller data/text
>>files being generated.
>>
>>Tom
>
>Great point Tom.  I had thought to explain that fragmentation happens
>this  way too, but found that Rod can't handle the mental imaging of
>files getting larger.  Never thought to correlate it to the smaller cluster
>of FAT32.  Of course more fragmentation would occur with a cluster
>size of 4KB instead of 16KB.  As you add to a report or database,
>the file will be fragmented all over the drive.

Thanks...I've found fragmentation to be a bit more severe since I
converted, but I don't have any quantitative data, just a sense that
that's the case. The one thing that has been frequent, and annoying,
with FAT32 is the incorrect reporting of free space.

Tom

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From: tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
Date: 1999/08/24
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