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Hardware White PaperHardware White Paper Hardware White PaperHardware White Paper Designing Hardware for Microsoft® Operating Systems Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT32 File System Specification FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format Version 1.03, December 6, 2000 Microsoft Corporation The FAT (File Allocation Table) file system has its origins in the late 1970s and early1980s and was the file system supported by the Microsoft® MS-DOS® operating system. It was originally developed as a simple file system suitable for floppy disk drives less than 500K in size. Over time it has been enhanced to support larger and larger media. Currently there are three FAT file system types: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. The basic difference in these FAT sub types, and the reason for the names, is the size, in bits, of the entries in the actual FAT structure on the disk. There are 12 bits in a FAT12 FAT entry, 16 bits in a FAT16 FAT entry and 32 bits in a FAT32 FAT entry. Contents Notational Conventions in this Document 7 General Comments (Applicable to FAT File System All Types)7 Boot Sector and BPB7 FAT Data Structure 13 FAT Type Determination 14 FAT Volume Initialization 19 FAT32 FSInfo Sector Structure and Backup Boot Sector21 FAT Directory Structure 22 FAT Long Directory Entries 25 Name Limits and Character Sets 29 Name Matching In Short Long Names ..30 Naming Conventions and Long Names30 Effect of Long Directory Entries on Down Level Versions of FAT 32 Validating The Contents of a Directory 32 Other Notes Relating to FAT Directories33 Microsoft, MS_DOS, Windows, and Windows NT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. © 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Fo