17. FAT

• What is the difference between a 16 bit FAT and a 32 bit FAT?

  • FAT16 contains 16-bit FAT entries and can address at most 65,535 clusters.

  • FAT32 contains 32-bit FAT entries, but only 28 bits are used to indicate clusters. FAT32 can address up to 268,435,455 clusters.