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  Regular DOS--versions 6.22 and earlier--uses the FAT file system for file access. This includes the FAT12 and FAT16 variations. Windows 95 comes with a "built-in" version of DOS, version 7.x. The OEM Service Release 2 version of Windows 95 supports FAT32, and therefore, DOS 7.1 that comes with Windows 95 OSR2 also supports FAT32. FAT32 partitions are not compatible with standard, pre-7.x DOS. Next: Windows 3.x

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