Editing File Allocation Table (section)

== References ==
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<ref name="Microsoft_1979_BASIC80-51">{{cite book |title=MICROSOFT BASIC-80 version 5.0 reference manual / BASIC-80 Interpreter and Compiler Addendum Release 5.1 |year=1979 |version=5.1 |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |url=http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/820-II/BASIC-80_5.0.pdf |access-date=2014-06-02<!--, 8101-530-07--> |archive-date=2016-03-04  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120148/http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/820-II/BASIC-80_5.0.pdf |url-status=live }} (NB. For Microsoft (Standalone Disk / Disk / Extended / 8K) BASIC-80, (Standalone Disk / Extended) BASIC-86, BASIC Compiler, release 5.1)</ref>
<ref name="BYTE_1980_86-DOS">{{cite magazine |title=86-DOS - 8086 OPERATING SYSTEM - $95 |author=Seattle Computer Products |author-link=Seattle Computer Products |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |volume=5 |number=8 |date=August 1980 |publisher=[[BYTE Publications Inc.]] |issn=0360-5280 |id={{CODEN|BYTEDJ}} |type=Advertisement |page=173 |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-08/1980_08_BYTE_05-08_The_Forth_Language#page/n173/mode/2up |access-date=2013-08-18 }} [https://tech-insider.org/personal-computers/research/acrobat/8008-a.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201163325/https://tech-insider.org/personal-computers/research/acrobat/8008-a.pdf |date=2020-02-01  }} (NB. The SCP advertisement already calls the product ''86-DOS'', but does not mention a specific version number. Version 0.3 is known to be called 86-DOS already, so the name change must have taken place either for version 0.2 or immediately afterwards in August 1980.)</ref>
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<ref name="Paterson_2007_Design-DOS">{{cite web |url=http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2007/09/design-of-dos.html |date=September 30, 2007 |author-link=Tim Paterson |first=Tim |last=Paterson |title=Design of DOS |work=DosMan Drivel |access-date=2011-07-04 |archive-date=2013-01-20  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120075653/http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2007/09/design-of-dos.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Norton2">[[Peter Norton|Norton, Peter]]; (1986); ''Inside the IBM PC, Revised and Enlarged'', Brady, {{ISBN|0-89303-583-1}}, p. 157</ref>
<ref name="Jenkinson_2000_Forensic">{{cite book |first1=Brian |last1=Jenkinson |last2=Sammes |first2=A. J. |title=Forensic Computing: A Practitioner's Guide (Practitioner Series) |url=https://archive.org/details/forensiccomputin00samm_915 |url-access=limited |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |year=2000 |page=[https://archive.org/details/forensiccomputin00samm_915/page/n163 157] |isbn=1-85233-299-9 |quote=... only 2^12 (that is, 4096) allocation units or clusters can be addressed. In fact, the number is less than this, since 000h and 001h are not used and FF0h to FFFh are reserved or used for other purposes, leaving 002h to FEFh (2 to 4079) as the range of possible clusters.}}</ref>
<ref name="efi">{{cite web |url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/fatgen103.doc |title=Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT32 File System Specification, FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |date=March 30, 2011 |access-date=2018-12-21 |archive-date=2021-07-23  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723100623/http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4cc9-843a-923143f3456c/fatgen103.doc |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Brouwer_2002_Partition-IDs">{{cite web |url=http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html |title=List of partition identifiers for PCs |first=Andries |last=Brouwer |access-date=2012-01-11  |archive-date=2019-04-23  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423204723/http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Brouwer_2002_Logical_FAT">{{cite web |url=https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html#ss2.6 |title=Properties of partition tables |first=Andries |last=Brouwer |access-date=2012-01-11  |archive-date=2019-04-23  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423204726/https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-2.html#ss2.6 |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_2003_CC736327">{{cite web |url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736327(v=ws.10).aspx |title=Dskprobe Overview: Data Recovery |publisher=[[Microsoft TechNet]] |date=March 28, 2003 |access-date=2011-08-03 |archive-date=2011-07-03  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703230849/http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736327(v=WS.10).aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_2004_KB120138">{{cite web |url=http://c-bit.org/kb/120138/EN-US/ |title=Errors Creating Files or Folders in the Root Directory |publisher=Microsoft Help and Support |date=December 16, 2004 |access-date=2006-10-14 |archive-date=2020-07-31  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731141634/http://c-bit.org/kb/120138/EN-US/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_1998_CC768180">{{cite web |url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768180.aspx |title=Windows 98 Resource Kit – Chapter 10 – Disks and File Systems |publisher=[[Microsoft TechNet]] |year=1998 |access-date=2012-07-16 |archive-date=2012-05-01  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501150154/http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768180.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="MKDOSFS">{{cite web |url=http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mkdosfs.8.html |title=mkdosfs man page |access-date=2006-11-21  |archive-date=2006-10-07  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007182356/http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mkdosfs.8.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_2007_KB184006">{{cite web |url=http://c-bit.org/kb/184006/EN-US/ |title=Limitations of FAT32 File System |quote=Clusters cannot be 64&nbsp;kilobytes (<abbr title=""kilobyte"; should be "kilobyte" (1024 or 2×512&nbsp;bytes)">KB</abbr>) or larger |date=March 26, 2007 |publisher=[[Microsoft Knowledge Base]] |access-date=2011-08-21 |archive-date=2020-07-31  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731085746/http://c-bit.org/kb/184006/EN-US/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_2007_KB314463">{{cite web |url=http://c-bit.org/kb/314463/EN-US/ |title=Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP |date=December 1, 2007 |publisher=[[Microsoft Knowledge Base]] |access-date=2011-08-21 |archive-date=2020-07-31  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731081921/http://c-bit.org/kb/314463/EN-US/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Eager_2000_Tavi">{{cite web |url=http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/eadata.html |title=Implementation of extended attributes on the FAT file system |first=Bob |last=Eager |work=Tavi OS/2 pages |date=October 28, 2000 |access-date=2006-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613212300/http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/eadata.html |archive-date=June 13, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name="Linux_ChangeLog257">{{cite web |url=https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.7 |title=Release notes for v2.5.7 |publisher=The Linux Kernel archives |date=March 12, 2002 |access-date=2006-10-14 |archive-date=2006-04-15  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060415030215/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.7 |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Xbox_FATX-Spec">{{cite web |url=http://www.free60.org/wiki/FATX |title=FATX Specification |publisher=free60 wiki |access-date=2011-08-16 |archive-date=2018-07-26  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726171806/http://free60.org/wiki/FATX |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Xbox_Linux">{{cite web |first1=Andrew |last1=de Quincey |first2=Lucien |last2=Murray-Pitts |version=0.13 |url=http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_Partitioning_and_Filesystem_Details |title=Xbox partitioning and file system details |publisher=Xbox-Linux project |date=August 29, 2008 |access-date=2014-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617020539/http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_Partitioning_and_Filesystem_Details |archive-date=June 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="Xbox360_FATX">{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Steil |url=http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Differences_between_Xbox_FATX_and_MS-DOS_FAT |title=Differences between Xbox FATX and MS-DOS FAT |publisher=Xbox-Linux project |date=February 26, 2008 |orig-year=2003<!-- 2003-11-30 --> |access-date=2014-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617022009/http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Differences_between_Xbox_FATX_and_MS-DOS_FAT |archive-date=June 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="Kelder_FAT32IFS074">Kelder, Henk; ''FAT32.TXT for FAT32.IFS version 0.74'' ({{cite web |url=http://macarlo.com/fat32v074.htm |title=@Macarlo, Inc |access-date=2012-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330171510/http://macarlo.com/fat32v074.htm |archive-date=March 30, 2012 |df=mdy-all}}). Comment: This older version of the README file still discusses the old <code>0xEA</code> and <code>0xEC</code> magic values.</ref>
<ref name="Kelder_2003_FAT32IFS0913">Kelder, Henk; (2003); ''FAT32.TXT for FAT32.IFS version 0.9.13''. ([http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/fat32/branches/fat32-0.9/src/fat32.txt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511141205/http://svn.netlabs.org/repos/fat32/branches/fat32-0.9/src/fat32.txt |date=2013-05-11  }}): "This byte [...] is not modified while running [[Windows 95]] and neighter ''[sic]'' by [[SCANDISK]] or [[DEFRAG]]. [...] If another program sets the value to <code>0x00</code> for a file that has [[extended attributes|EAs]] these EAs will no longer be found using DosFindFirst/Next calls only. The other [[OS/2]] calls for retrieving EAs (DosQueryPathInfo, DosQueryFileInfo and DosEnumAttribute) do not rely on this byte. Also the opposite could [...] occur. [...] In this situation only the performance of directory scans will be decreased. Both situations [...] are corrected by [[CHKDSK]]".</ref>
<ref name="DRDOS_FAT+_R2">{{cite web |title=FAT+ draft revision 2 |author-first1=Udo |author-last1=Kuhnt |author-first2=Luchezar I. |author-last2=Georgiev |author-first3=Jeremy |author-last3=Davis |date=2007 |format=FATPLUS.TXT |edition=2 |url=http://www.fdos.org/kernel/fatplus.txt |access-date=2015-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219123449/http://www.fdos.org/kernel/fatplus.txt |archive-date=February 19, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name="Microsoft_2006_ACCDATE">Microsoft (2006-11-15). [http://c-bit.org/kb/135481/EN-US/ Windows 95 CD-ROM CONFIG.TXT File] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731095231/http://c-bit.org/kb/135481/EN-US/ |date=2020-07-31  }} Article 135481, Revision: 1.1, retrieved 2011-12-22: "For each hard disk, specifies whether to record the date that files are last accessed. Last access dates are turned off for all drives when your computer is started in safe mode, and are not maintained for floppy disks by default. Syntax: <code>[[ACCDATE (CONFIG.SYS directive)|ACCDATE]]=drive1+|- [drive2+|-]...</code>"</ref>
<ref name="Eager_2000_EA">Eager, Bob; Tavi Systems (October 28, 2000); ''Implementation of extended attributes on the FAT file system'' ([http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/eadata.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613212300/http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/eadata.html |date=June 13, 2006 }})</ref>
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