Transcription: A single file may be strewn among hundreds of separate clusters scattered across several platters. The operating system stores a file beginning in the first clusters it finds listed as free in the VFAT. The VFAT keeps a chain record of clusters used by a file, each link in the chain leading to the next cluster containing more of the file. Once the data from the VFAT is passed through the drive's electronics and hard disk controller back to the operating system, the operating system instructs the drive to skip its read-write heads across the surface of the platters, reading or writing clusters ...
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