FAT help

[nymph4]

I think I understand how FAT 16 and FAT 32 works but I just need a little more help if anyone can give it??

If you use FAT 16 on a 2. G.B. Hard Dive will use 64 Sectors to make every Cluster and every Cluster will be 32 kB in size. So if you save something to your Hard Drive that just takes one Cluster but it only uses one Sector out of the 64.....then if I am right you would still have 63 Sectors in that one Cluster that are not used and they can not be used because the Cluster is marked as being used.

So that is why they came up with FAT 32 it only takes 8. Sectors to make one Cluster and every Cluster is only 4 kB in size. You will have less wasted space even if you save something that only take one Sector.

I get all of this but one thing I don't get is at the fatory they do a Low Level Format does that divid the Hard Drive into even number of Sectors and is every Sector 512 Bytes in size???

That would meen every Cluster will be 1. kB not 32 kB on a FAT 16 Drive.
What am I not getting??                       

[nymph4]

If someone can put it in there own words that will be greeate thank

[nymph4]

Can someone tell me some things I don't understand?

If I am say at a win 98 System and use fdisk I can partition a Hard Drive and I can use TAF 16 and can  just have 2. Partitions on it.

A Primary Partition and a Extanded Partition   and then I foundout that the Extanded Partition can be Partitioned 25 times.

So does this mean that the Primary Partion is going to keep trak off all the other Partitions on the Extanded Partition?

And what about FAT 32 how many Extanded Partitions can it have or does FAT 32 not work this way