Jim,

Cluster size is a function of the Disk Operating System (more commonly
refereed to as DOS) and is determined by the size of the hard disk.
Despite what you may have heard, DOS is still alive and well living inside
Windows.  So DOS, and all flavors of Windows (except for NT's NTFS)  have
the same size configurations.  The breakpoints and sizes are:

Partition size        Sector/cluster        Cluster size

0-15Mb                   8                              4K
16-127Mb              4                              2K
128-255Mb            8                              4K
256-511Mb          16                              8K
512-1023Mb        32                           16K
1024-2145Mb      64                           32K

Someone else can address the NTFS sizes.

Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Gemeinhardt <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 8:25 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD]


> Could someone please give the maximum and minimum partition sizes for
the
> various operating systems.
>
> Dos -
> Windows 3.1 -
> Win95 and Win95a -
> Win95b -
> WinNT  both  NTFS - and  FAT -
>
> I seem to get conflicting explanations and I haven't found a KB article
or
> description anywhere.
>
>
> TIA
>
> Jim Gemeinhardt
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