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Message 1/6/2006
Name: reza
Email: [email protected]
Subject: computer fat 16

Message: FAT16 is an abbreviation for "File Allocation Table 16-bit". In a FAT16 drive, each file is stored in one or more clusters, while the sequence of which clusters each file is stored in is recorded by the FAT (File Allocation Table) entries. There is one FAT entry for every cluster or allocation unit in a logical drive, and each of the allocation units in the drive is sequentially addressed by a 16 bit numeric value. This in turn limits both the number of allocation units and the number of FAT entries to 65,536 or 64K. (Per Microsoft article Q118335, the maximum number of FAT16 clusters is actually 65525, which is 11 short of a full 64K.) So when a drive is formatted, the FORMAT command selects the smallest cluster size that it can use, based on the drive size and using from 4087 to 65525 clusters.

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