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by rajankanth

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what is the difference between FAT16and FAt32?
can u pls define these two? with examples

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by bob_steel

A hard drive has a File Allocation Table (FAT) that is used like an index to tell things where on the drive to look for the next bit of data.

FAT16 drives have 16 bits available to store this address in - and FAT32 has 28 or so. this means a FAT32 device can cope with a larger drive than a FAT16 one,

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