John and other subscribers Can you recommend a good source of information regarding HD formatting (FAT16 vs FAT32). Also is it possible to set the cluster size on a FAT16 dirve to 32k? Regards David George [log in to unmask] >>> [log in to unmask] 24/July/2000 06:56pm >>> At 12:53 AM 07/24/2000 Edna Sloan wrote: > >. . . . I am running W98 on a 10G drive. . . Also with >the 32k clusters it should run faster than the 4k of FAT32. . . > Edna: You should set aside an entire drive volume for your swap file....The reason to use FAT16, is that you probably never need a swap file larger than 512MB (in its own drive volume, of course; 512MB is the smallest standard FAT32 volume size). More importantly, FAT16 is faster than FAT32. It's not the size of the clusters (since a memory page is still 4KB) but the fact that file allocation tables are implemented as linked lists, and there are many more (smaller) clusters to keep track of in FAT32. A FAT16 swap file on a 128MB to 255MB drive volume will have 4KB clusters, the same as FAT32, but with less overhead. Regards, John Chin PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>