Computer Files » allocation http://www.computer-files.com Everything you need to know about computer files Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:51:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 About the FAT32 filesystem http://www.computer-files.com/about-the-fat32-filesystem.html http://www.computer-files.com/about-the-fat32-filesystem.html#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:18:29 +0000 Computer Expert http://www.computer-files.com/2008/01/17/about-the-fat32-filesystem/

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 to 2 terabytes and the space is being used more efficiently with smaller clusters.

The new filesystem made possible to relocate the root directory and the boot record has been expanded for backup purposes of critical data. The root directory can be placed anywhere on the hard drive making it more flexible.

FAT32 was developed to be compatible with the existing file architecture used by Windows’95, with data structures and API interfaces so that most applications, drivers and utilities won’t be affected and should be working properly.

Performance of most applications has also increased thanks to the new file system but there are also a few applications which encountered a slight degradation of their performance.

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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 the MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), developed by Microsoft. We can distinguish three types of File Allocation Tables:

FAT12 – it is a 12-bit binary file system and the oldest FAT type
FAT16 – it uses a 16-bit binary file system (there are still PCs running Windows 3.1 or 95 in which the hard drive uses FAT16 filesystem)
FAT32 – an improved file allocation table which uses 28-bit binary system

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