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that once held mom.txt. As Windows writes the file to the drive, it overwrites

the space that mom.txt used, but it needs three more clusters. The next three

available clusters are 03213AC4, 03213AC6 (skipping cluster 03213AC5,

which is marked bad), and 03213AC7 (see Figure 9-22).

Figure 9-22 The taxrec.xls file, fragmented

Notice that taxrec.xls is in two pieces, thus fragmented. Fragmentation

takes place all of the time on FAT32 systems. Although the system easily

negotiates a tiny fragmented file split into only two parts, excess

fragmentation slows down the system during hard drive reads and writes.

This example is fragmented into two pieces; in the real world, a file might

fragment into hundreds of pieces, forcing the read/write heads to travel all

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