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FAT32 reserves 1st 32 sectors for boot record.
3 sector boot record at logical sector 0 and backup at 6
Following the boot sectors are 2 copies of the FAT.
FAT 32 creates 2 copies of the partition volume boot record.
OS can toggle between copies to find a good copy.
FAT 32 treats root directory as a standard directory,
up to limit 65534 entries like all other directories.
Although FAT 32 capable of 8.8TB, field size in MBR limits it to 2 TiB.
Large Partition (8GB) with small clusters (4KB)
64 MB FAT - Since FAT used a lot, tends to be cached.
Largest problem with FAT 32 is its limited or non-existent support
by older (Win95) or different OSes (NT, Mac)
Emergency boot record must be created by Win 95B, 98, ME, 2000, or XP.
Still no security, encryption, or compression.