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Anyone know how to get wasted space back because of larger clusters?

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DKNG

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I would wondering if anyone knows an easy way to get it back. I have 3 partitions and one is a 33 gig running Win98SE and WinXP. In the my computer window it shows that I have used 32.9 gig but when I go into the drive I select all the files it shows that I used 25 gigs. Also the cluster size for the drive is 32K but I dont see why 8 gigs is wasted. That is way too much and I dont feel like partitioning that drive.
 
I cannot see your reasoning why the drive would go any slower if you reduced the cluster size.

Its not something I've tryed to do personally but at a guess I think it would take the best part of a couple of hours to convert (don't quote me on that though).
 
There may be some slow down, but I highly doubt you'd notice. Most decent filesystems (i.e. ext2, XFS, NTFS, etc) use 2k or 4k clusters by default and they're considerably faster than FAT.

Also back up your data before changing the cluster size, PQMagic usually works but I've seen it crash on more than one occasion.
 
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