The FAT32 file allocation table was introduced in 1996 together with the improved Windows 95 OSR2 operating system. The newly developed file system made it possible to create hard disks with larger storing capacities than its predecessor the FAT16 which allowed a maximum of 2GB of data. The FAT32 supports large amounts of data up [...]

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FAT is the acronym for File Allocation Table which is one of the best known methods to keep track of the contents of a disk used by the Windows operating systems. It was invented in 1977 by Microsoft and initially was the solution to store data on floppy disks. The FAT filesystem was used by [...]

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