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This 3-page paper compares and contrasts FAT and NTFS on the Windows operating systems. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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System (or NFST) and File Allocation Table, or FAT. In this paper, well compare and contrast these two systems, as they are different from one another.
The File Allocation Table (which is fairly antiquated, at least in terms of technology), is a specific table that the operating system relies on to locate
a particular file (or files) on the disk (Webopedia.com, 2003). But files are not typically stored in one piece -- because of disk fragmentation (which is more the norm than
the exception), a file is likely to be divided into many different pieces that are scattered in various sectors of the disk (Webopedia.com, 2003). The purpose of the FAT is
to keep track of all the pieces and to bring them together when requested by the user (i.e., when the document is called up) (Webopedia.com, 2003).
On Windows 95, the FAT system is called FAT16, whereas the table on the Windows 95 and Windows 98 versions is known as FAT32 (Webopedia.com, 2003).
In the meantime, when it comes to the NT system, FAT is considered one of the most simplistic file systems supported by
this version of Windows (Microsoft.com, 2005). Additionally, FAT supports only a few select files attributes such as read-only, hidden, system and archive (Microsoft.com, 2005).
The FAT naming convention uses the typical 8.3 file naming method, with all filenames required to be created with the ASCII character set (Microsoft.com, 2005). With a FAT,
the name of a file or directory can be up to eight characters long, followed by a period as a separator, then a three-character extension (.doc; .rtf; .txt) (Microsoft.com, 2005).
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