The first file system to be used in a Microsoft operating system was the FAT system, which uses a file allocation table. This table is an index that creates a list of disk contents to record the ...

NTFS and FAT are a file system that represents a technique of organizing and storing the data on the drive. These file systems also specify what type of attributes can be attached to a file such as ...

FAT32, part of the File Allocation Table family of file systems, is the oldest of the three, having been originally created for floppy disk storage. Introduced in Windows 95, it remains the most ...

The file system used in DOS, OS/2 and many versions of Windows. The name comes from the "file allocation table" that is used to to keep track of the data on the disk. See FAT and FAT32. THIS ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

In a move that could ultimately deal a heavy blow to Microsofts intellectual property rights, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine the patent the company holds on the FAT (file ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

For years, Microsoft used its patents as a way to profit from open-source products. The poster-child for Microsoft's intellectual property aggression were the File Allocation Table (FAT) patents. But ...