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 ...

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 ...

With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the ...

Tuxera Inc., the market leader in interoperable file system technologies, announced today a major implementation advancement of the FAT file system. Tuxera FAT provides significantly faster data ...

Are you looking for methods to convert FAT32 disks to NTFS file systems without losing data? If so, this post will interest you. One of the major reasons for changing FAT32 to NTFS is that FAT32 drive ...

[Gary Kildall] and CP/M are the great ‘also ran’ of the computing world; CP/M could run on thousands of different 1980s computers, and [Gary] saw a few million in revenue each year thanks to CP/M’s ...

When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

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 ...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this...<BR><BR>I'm looking for a description of how the fat filesystem works. I found the document put out by Microsoft FAT: General Overview of On-Disk ...