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  2. File Allocation Table - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, the FAT16B improvement became more generally available through DR DOS 3.31, PC DOS 4.0, OS/2 1.1, and MS-DOS 4.0. The limit on partition size was dictated by the 8-bit signed count of sectors per cluster, which originally had a maximum power-of-two value of 64. With the standard hard disk sector size of 512 bytes, this gives a maximum ...

  3. Comparison of DOS operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export ... Hard drive: partition size max Native support: File systems ... MS-DOS 1.25 — FAT12 — 160 KB; 320 KB ...

  4. Design of the FAT file system - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS/PC DOS require this value to be a multiple of 16. The maximum value supported on floppy disks is 240, [6] the maximum value supported by MS-DOS/PC DOS on hard disks is 512. [6] DR-DOS supports booting off FAT12/FAT16 volumes, if the boot file is located in the first 2048 root directory entries. 0x013 0x08 2 Total logical sectors. 0 for ...

  5. Partition type - Wikipedia

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    The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file ...

  6. Comparison of file systems - Wikipedia

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    File system Maximum filename length Allowable characters in directory entries [cc] Maximum pathname length Maximum file size Maximum volume size [cd] Max number of files AdvFS: 255 characters Any byte except NUL [ce] No limit defined [cf] 16 TiB (17.59 TB) 16 TiB (17.59 TB) ? APFS: 255 UTF-8 characters Unicode 9.0 encoded in UTF-8 [96]? 8 EiB ...

  7. MS-DOS - Wikipedia

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    On March 25, 2014, Microsoft made the code to SCP MS-DOS 1.25 and a mixture of Altos MS-DOS 2.11 and TeleVideo PC DOS 2.11 available to the public under the Microsoft Research License Agreement, which makes the code source-available, but not open source as defined by Open Source Initiative or Free Software Foundation standards.

  8. BIOS parameter block - Wikipedia

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    Filesystems making use of a BIOS parameter block include FAT12 (except for in DOS 1.x), FAT16, FAT32, HPFS, and NTFS. Due to different types of fields and the amount of data they contain, the length of the BPB is different for FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS boot sectors. [ 1 ] (

  9. 8.3 filename - Wikipedia

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    An 8.3 filename (also called a short filename or SFN) is one that obeys the filename convention used by CP/M and old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5. It is also used in modern Microsoft operating systems as an alternate filename to the long filename, to provide compatibility with legacy ...