FAT term explained

FAT - File Allocation Table

FAT in computer terms is the file allocation, which is set for your windows operating system. It holds information on how all the files are stored on your computer and FAT is one type of allocation for these files.

Windows 95 and 98 have fat 16 and fat 32.

NT, windows 2000, and XP have the NTFS file system for a whole partition. A partition is all the files on your hard drive stored in one sector, when you split your hard drive in to two partitions the easiest way to think of it is imagining all your files being split in to 2 sets and say 200 files in 1 partition and another 200 files in another.

Fat keeps a record of where the files are stored, just as NTFS does. NTFS backs up critical data, however the fat system does not. This means things aren’t as stable on a fat system.

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