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jkenterprises

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  1. I hope this doesn't cause any trouble. But just for informational purposes, as follows. When you format a 160 Gig hd, E.G., it takes approx.. 10 Gigs to format it. And yes windows does use the method where it looks as disk space the same as memory, i.e. : 1024 instead of 1000. Which as was stated earlier reads space as smaller than if you read it from DOS, which uses the actual byte size. Also if you use NTFS (XP not the older ver.s, it uses 2k clusters. NTFS used to use 64k.) So if you put a 1k file in a 2k cluster it takes up 2k. Fat32 uses 32k clusters if the partition is over 16 Gig.s. So if you put a 1k file there it = 32k. on the HD. Only 1 file will fit in a cluster. You can make the cluster size littler with fat32 but if you exceed the DOS limits of to many clusters, there will be problems with data, scandisk, ext. I don't want to sound like a know it all, I AM NOT!!! The longer I work on computers the more I learn. I have been working on computers since the before original Intel 80086 chip came out. I still have computers with these chips. (They were called XT computers instead of AT.) I also still have "Billy Boy Gates" original DOS (Ver.1) He purchased DOS from another programmer for $5,000. He had to adapt it to work with the Intel chips. He named it DOS for Disk Operating System. He licensed DOS to IBM before he even knew of the OS. He went & found DOS after he licensed it. He is the worlds greatest salesman!!! (For the true story of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, MS & Apple read the book "Fire in the Valley", or watch the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, which was made from the book, as a "T.N.T. original" (Ted Turner's Turner Network Television.) If you've read this far I am sure you have guessed I am "Older than Old". (I am 49 years old, & have a loving wife of 20 years, & a 15 year old daughter.) I work mainly on networking & trouble shooting computers, mainly for commercial accounts. New computers are as "disposable as BIC lighters". I am writing this message on a 2000 HP Vectra Business computer with a 650 MHz. PIII. It works as good as the day I bought it. (I paid $2000 for the computer, monitor, mouse, speakers, ext.) It will still be working 20 years from now. (I have several 20 year old computers that still function perfect.) Once again I am not a know it all. I have paid my dues though. I learned computers in 1979 at our local community college. (There were only mainframe computers then, no PC.s) The "state of the art OS was Unix, which of course is what Linux was derived from. There is not much call for Unix or Linux programmers these days. Anyway, enough nostalgia! I hope to be a valuable part of this forum & to keep learning from all of you! I think this is a nice forum! I am happy to have found it. Cheers to all!
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