Ok, we've been debating about FAT 32 for months, here is what the Windows
98 Manual says about FAT 32, and the conversion prog., verbatim.

----Cut from Page 85 of the Microsoft Windows 98 manual (English)----

The table below illustrates the larger partition size and smaller size
available thought the FAT32 files system.  partitions larger than 2
gigabyte (GB) are not supported with FAT16, and paritions smaller than
512MB are not supported with FAT32.

Partition size          FAT16 cluster size              FAT32
cluster size
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
32 MB(megabytes)                2 KB (kilobytes)                      --

128 MB                  2 KB                          --

256 MB                  4 KB                          --

512 MB                  8 KB                          4 KB

1 GB (gigabyte)         16 KB
  4 KB

2 GB                    32 KB                         4 KB

3 GB - 7 GB             --                            4 KB

8 GB - 16 GB            --                            8 KB

16 GB - 32 GB           --                            16 KB

Larger than 32 GB                          --
  32 KB

If your hard disk is smaller than 2 GB and your computer uses the FAT16
files system, you man not see much improvement if you convert to FAT32.
But you may want to convert to FAT32 if your hard disk is between 2 GB
and 2 terabytes (TB) and you want to imrove its eficiency.

The FAT32 file system has the following advantages over FAT16:

* It allows programs to open more quickly, on average, 36% faster.

* It uses a smaller cluster size, resulting in more efficient use of disk
space--on average,28% more disk space.

* It allows a hard disk up to 2 TB to be formatted as a single drive,
eliminating the need to partition the hard disk.

* It can relocate the root directory and use backup copies of the FAT,
making your computer less vulerable to crashes

--cut from page 85 of the Microsoft Windows 98 Manual, all credit is
hereby given
to those who made this product, you know who you are--

As you all can see from previous arguments on the list, that FAT 32
CANNOT BE
PLACED ON A FAT 32 DRIVE! period.

Good day, to you all.

--Patrick Black

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