04, April 2017: In order to overcome the volume size limit of FAT16, while at the same time allowing DOS real mode code to handle the format, Microsoft designed a new version of the file system, FAT32, which supported an increased number of possible clusters, but could reuse most of the existing code, so that the conventional memory footprint was increased by less than 5 KiB under DOS. Cluster values are represented by 32-bit numbers, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number. The boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting the FAT32 volume size to 2 TiB for a sector size of 512 bytes and 16 TiB for a sector size of 4, 096 bytes.
When fat32 partitions are deleted or formatted, the success rates of recovering big files or frequently modified files are very low. For example, it is very difficult to completely recover the XLS or CDR files which are edited and modified frequently. But files remain untouched enjoy a high success rate. For example, it is very easy to recover PDF, JPG or MPG files which are not modified frequently. It is because that the FAT or fat32 partition applies file allocation table to record the information of cluster chain fragments of each file. After the deletion or formation, the information of cluster chain fragments will be emptied. For files are edited and modified frequently, due to the dynamic increase in the file length, they usually would be stored continuously in the file system, which results the impossible recovery of file fragment information and thus incompletely recovered files
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