FAT16 was primarily designed for MS-DOS based computers. FAT16 means it can read and write 16 bits of information at a time or 1 cycle. FAT16 is found in operating systems like Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT.
Properties of FAT16:
It can support a maximum partition size of 2.1 GB in MS-DOS and 4.0 GB under Windows NT.
Each Partition contains a maximum files of 65,536.
Restricted to 512 entries in the root directory of the hard drive and 128 entries in the root partition of a floppy disk.
No build in support for long file names.
