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  2. File Allocation Table - Wikipedia

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    In order to overcome the volume size limit of FAT16, while at the same time allowing DOS real-mode code to handle the format, Microsoft designed a new version of the file system, FAT32, which supported an increased number of possible clusters, but could reuse most of the existing code, so that the conventional memory footprint was increased by ...

  3. Rufus (software) - Wikipedia

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    It supports formatting flash drives using FAT, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, UDF and ReFS filesystems. [11] Rufus can also be used to compute the MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashes of the currently selected image. Rufus is capable of downloading retail ISO DVD images of Windows 8.1, various builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11 directly from Microsoft's servers.

  4. Design of the FAT file system - Wikipedia

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    Formatting tools or non-DR SYS-type tools may clear these bits, but other disk tools should leave bits 15-8 unchanged. 0x02A 0x1F 2 Version (defined as 0.0). The high byte of the version number is stored at offset 0x02B, and the low byte at offset 0x02A. [4] FAT32 implementations should refuse to mount volumes with version numbers unknown by them.

  5. FAT filesystem and Linux - Wikipedia

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    All of the Linux filesystem drivers support all three FAT types, namely FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32.Where they differ is in the provision of support for long filenames, beyond the 8.3 filename structure of the original FAT filesystem format, and in the provision of Unix file semantics that do not exist as standard in the FAT filesystem format such as file permissions. [1]

  6. Comparison of disc image software - Wikipedia

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  7. Microsoft basic data partition - Wikipedia

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    A basic data partition can be formatted with any file system, although most commonly BDPs are formatted with the NTFS, exFAT, or FAT32 file systems. To programmatically determine which file system a BDP contains, Microsoft specifies that one should inspect the BIOS Parameter Block that is contained in the BDP's Volume Boot Record .

  8. Comparison of file systems - Wikipedia

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    Elektronika BK tape format NPO "Scientific centre" (now Sitronics) 1985 Vilnius Basic, BK monitor program HFS: Apple: 1985 System 2.1: Amiga OFS: Metacomco for Commodore: 1985 Amiga OS: GEMDOS: Digital Research: 1985 Atari TOS: NWFS: Novell: 1985 NetWare 286: High Sierra: Ecma International: 1986 MSCDEX for MS-DOS 3.1/3.2 [3] FAT16B: Compaq ...

  9. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...