It is introduced this system in Windows 95 to replace the FAT16 file system used with older OS systems like DOS and Windows 3. Without using the file system, information placed in a storage medium would be one large body of data with no way to know where one piece of information stops and the next one begins.įAT32 is one of the oldest of the three file systems available to Windows.

In computing, a file system determines how data is stored and retrieved.

File system is a collection of algorithms and data structures that perform the translation from logical file operations to actual physical storage of information.