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What is the difference between Fat 32 and NTFS Files?

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What is the difference between Fat 32 and NTFS Files?

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These are file managegement system for the disks, in an OS. A file system is a part of the operating system that determines how files are named, stored, and organized on a volume. A file system manages files and folders, and the information needed to locate and access these items by local and remote users. FAT32 was introduced with Windows 95 OSR2. In FAT32, cluster counts held in a 32-bit field, In theory, this should support a total of approximately 268,435,438 (228) clusters, allowing for drive sizes in the range of 8 terabytes with 32K clusters. However, due to limitations in Microsoft’s scandisk utility, the FAT is not allowed to grow beyond 4,177,920 (< 222) clusters, placing the volume limit at 124.55 gigabytes, unless "scandisk" is not needed. NTFS was developed to overcome the problems in the FAT, and named as New Technology File System. NTFS replaced Microsoft's previous FAT file system, used in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows. NTFS has several improvements over FAT such

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