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Dos Windows 95 Fat Fat12 Fat16 Windows 98 Windows Me Fat32 Windows 2000 Logical Disk Manager Diskpart

Early versions of the fdisk program included with Windows 95 could only create FAT12 and FAT16 partitions, while later versions included with Windows 95B and newer versions of Windows 98 and ME gained the ability to manipulate FAT32 partitions. In contrast to fdisk programs for other operating systems, the DOS and Windows 9x/ME versions not only altered data in the partition table but could overwrite data sectors in partitions as well, requiring users to verify the correct disk/partition is selected before partitioning to avoid data loss.

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Dos Windows 95 Fat Fat12 Fat16 Windows 98 Windows Me Fat32 Windows 2000 Logical Disk Manager Diskpart

Early versions of the fdisk program included with Windows 95 could only create FAT12 and FAT16 partitions, while later versions included with Windows 95B and newer versions of Windows 98 and ME gained the ability to manipulate FAT32 partitions. In contrast to fdisk programs for other operating systems, the DOS and Windows 9x/ME versions not only altered data in the partition table but could overwrite data sectors in partitions as well, requiring users to verify the correct disk/partition is selected before partitioning to avoid data loss.

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Most DOS fdisk programs, including the fdisk program that came with the

original Windows

95, are only capable of creating FAT partitions of types FAT12 and FAT16.

A derivative of the MS-DOS fdisk was provided with Windows 95, Windows

98, and

laterWindows

Me. Only those fdisk versions shipping with Windows 95B or later are able to
manipulate FAT32 partitions. Windows 2000 and later do not use fdisk, they have
the Logical

Disk Manager feature, as well as DiskPart.

Unlike the fdisk programs for other operating systems, the fdisk programs for DOS and

partition table, but will also overwrite many sectors of


data in the partition itself.
(However, to create an extended partition any partition
editor must put extended boot records before each logical drive on the disk.) Users must
Windows 9x/Me not only alter data in the
[citation needed]

be sure the correct disk/partition has been chosen before using a DOS/Windows fdisk for
partitioning.
The implementation of fdisk in FreeDOS has many advanced features and is free

software.

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