The Windows 95 File System
A major architectural change in Windows 95 is the installable file system, which has a new 32-bit, protected-mode Virtual File Allocation Table file system (VFAT) as its primary file system. With the installable file system, Windows 95 can manage multiple files systems, which makes it easy to connect to network computers using different file systems, such as HPFS (OS/2's file system) and NTFS (the Windows NT file system). Note that Windows 95 will not handle HPFUfand NTFS on a local hard drive.
VFAT, the primary file system in Windows 95, was actually an optional file system introduced in Windows for Workgroups 3.1. VFAT in Windows 95 has been improved and has many advantages over the original FAT file system used in ...
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