I am upgrading a Win 98 SE machine with a large hard drive, 30
Gigabytes.  Sector size presumably increases with the size of a drive.  In
this case, an upgrade to the BIOS would allow a single primary drive to
occupy the full 30 GB.  There is the option of dividing the drive into
smaller logical drives.  Does anyone have any suggestions or guidelines as
to whether efficiency of the drive in speed of read/write, retrieval would
be increased or decreased by dividing the drive or not, what the optimum
sector size would be by adjusting the logical drive size, etc.?  I am going
from the world of worrying whether my former small HD would hold all my
programs to the world of not being able to imagine ever filling a 30 GB
drive.  Thank you.

David E. Ralph
Chemung County Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc.
215 E. Church St., Ste 301
Elmira, NY 14901
VOX 607-734-1647
FAX 607-734-1018
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