FAT16

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FAT16

The 16-bit file system used on earlier PCs. See FAT and FAT32.

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A YOU never lost it - the hard drive has been partitioned using FAT16, which has a 2Gb limit.

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Both Windows 98 and Windows 95 with the SR2 patch give you a choice of using either the FAT16 or the FAT32 file structures.

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Alter you're up and running, Windows 98 gives you the option of converting all your files--applications and data--to a FAT32 format from FAT16. If you make the conversion, and you should, many of your applications will run faster and you'll gain between 20% and 30% of harddisk space.

Move to Windows 98 - or skip to NT?

Windows and older versions of 95 used FAT16 - these are the file allocation tables which tells the computer where to store and retrieve files.

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Recover lost, deleted and formatted data from common file systems including APFS, HFS+, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, etc.