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FAT16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Advantage<\/strong><\/td>\nDisadvantage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Compatibility with all Microsoft OS and some UNIX<\/td>\nRoot folder limited to 512 entries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MS-DOS boot floppy can access<\/td>\n4 GB theoretical size<\/p>\n

2 GB maximum in Windows XP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Efficient for small volumes (< 256 MB)<\/td>\nBoot sector not backed up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo file system security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo compression scheme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

FAT32<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Advantage<\/strong><\/td>\nDisadvantage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
No limit on number of root entries<\/td>\n32 GB limit in Windows XP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Efficient cluster size (4KB)<\/td>\nMS-DOS, Windows 95a, NT 4.0 cannot access<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boot sector backup<\/td>\nMS-DOS boot must be formatted in Windows 95b, 98, ME<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo file system security<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo compression scheme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

NTFS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Advantage<\/strong><\/td>\nDisadvantage<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
High performance \u2013 as fast as FAT*<\/td>\nIncompatible with legacy Windows<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
File\/folder permissions<\/td>\nNo MS-DOS floppy boot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quotas*<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
File compression<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mounted drives*<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Change journal<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Encryption*<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Applies to Windows 2000, XP, 2003<\/p>\n

File name rules<\/p>\n

Length: 255 characters<\/p>\n

Disallowed characters: \u201c \/ \\ [ ] : ; | = * ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FAT16 Advantage Disadvantage Compatibility with all Microsoft OS and some UNIX Root folder limited to 512 entries MS-DOS boot floppy can access 4 GB theoretical size 2 GB maximum in Windows XP Efficient for small volumes (< 256 MB) Boot sector not backed up No file system security No compression scheme FAT32 Advantage Disadvantage No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}