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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.
The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. [3] It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded systems, and thus is a well-suited file system for data exchange between computers and devices of almost any type and age from 1981 through to the present.
Windows 10 only allows formatting exFAT and NTFS on non-removeable volumes sized larger than 32 GB with the default user interface, and FAT32 format is suggested for smaller volumes; command-line utilities don't accept quick format using FAT32 if volume is larger than 32 GB.
exFAT is a file system introduced with Windows Embedded CE 6.0 in November 2006 and brought to the Windows NT family with Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (or separate installation of Windows XP Update KB955704). It is loosely based on the File Allocation Table architecture, but incompatible, proprietary and protected by patents.
Windows NT 3.5: NTFS 1.1 1995: Windows 95: FAT16B with VFAT: 1996: Windows NT 4.0: NTFS 1.2 1998: Mac OS 8.1 / macOS: HFS Plus (HFS+) 1998: Windows 98: FAT32 with VFAT: 2000 SUSE Linux Enterprise 6.4 ReiserFS [1] [2] 2000: Windows Me: FAT32 with VFAT: 2000: Windows 2000: NTFS 3.0 2000: Ututo GNU/Linux: ext4: 2000: Knoppix: ext3: 2000: Red Hat ...
The version of BitLocker included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Release 2 adds the ability to encrypt removable drives. On Windows XP or Windows Vista, read-only access to these drives can be achieved through a program called BitLocker To Go Reader, if FAT16 , FAT32 or exFAT filesystems are used. [ 15 ]
IFSHLP.SYS (the Installable File System Helper) is an MS-DOS device driver that was first released as part of Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It enables native 32-bit file access in Windows 386 Enhanced Mode by bypassing the 16-bit DOS API and ensuring that no other real mode driver intercepts INT 21h calls.
fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning.It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD, [2] NetBSD, [3] OpenBSD, [4] DragonFly BSD [5] and macOS [6] for compatibility reasons.