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FAT32

  • FAT32 file system appeared in Windows 95 OSR2 and is also supported by Windows 98/ME and Windows 2000/XP. FAT32 is a development of FAT16. Main differences between FAT32 and FAT16 are 28-bit cluster numbers and more flexible root folder implementation, which is not limited in size now. The reason for FAT32 is the necessity to support large (larger than 8 gigabytes) hard disks and the impossibility to build any more complex file system into MS-DOS, which is still in the core of Windows 95/98/ME.

    Maximum FAT32 file system size is 4 terabytes.
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