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jims...@my-dejanews.com

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Jun 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/26/98
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My computer came with a 9 gig HD, that was divided into 5 drives:
C:,D:,E:,F:,G:.

Is there some way using Win 98 to convert these 5 drives into just one drive?

Thanks, Jim Skees

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Ian Mitchell

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Jun 26, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/26/98
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Partition Magic is a superb commercial program useful for doing just
want you want, and anything else requiring re-partitioning. It is well
worth the investment.

Having said that I agree with the previous reply and generally don't
recommend such a large partition. In FAT format you will have a very
large cluster size involving hundreds of Mb lost from your drive.

In FAT32 you will have small cluster size so no wastage, but last
time I checked FAT32 did have some processing overhead so your disk
I/O might be slowed by say 5%.

Any one who has compared FAT32 and FAT performance on release Win98
care to comment?

What you have avoids both problems, and is generally tidier for
backup, and keeping track of files.
Regards
Ian
(ia...@melbpc.org.au)

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