Why did Microsoft create the FAT32 file system, and what are its basic specifications?

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Microsoft created FAT32 to support larger hard drives. This file system uses 32-bit cluster numbers (of which 28 bits are currently used). In theory, the 28-bit sector address should permit about 268,435,438 clusters, which allows drive sizes of approximately 2 terabytes (about 2 trillion bytes). However, Microsoft chose to limit the cluster count. For Windows 10, the partition limit is 32 GB for the primary partition.

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