Reference Guide - Hard Disk Drives  A Brief History of the Hard Disk Drive Construction and Operation of the Hard Disk Drive Hard Disk Geometry and Low-Level Data Structures Hard Disk Performance, Quality and Reliability Hard Disk BIOS and Capacity Factors Hard Disk Interfaces and Configuration Hard Disk Logical Structures and File Systems Operating Systems and File Systems DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, etc.) Windows 3.x Windows 95 Windows NT UNIX / Linux PC File Systems Major Disk Structures and the Boot Process FAT File System Disk Volume Structures Clusters and File Allocation Partitioning, Partition Sizes and Drive Lettering Disk Partitioning and Formatting Programs Disk Compression Author: Charles M. Kozierok  Different operating systems use different file systems. Some are designed specifically to work with more than one, for compatibility reasons; others work only with their own file system. This section takes a brief look at the most common operating systems in use on the PC and the file systems that they use. This enables you to know what parts of the rest of the discussion on file systems is most relevant to your situation. Next: DOS (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, etc.)

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