In a FAT file sytem, root directories comprise 14 sectors. ![]() Immediately after these FAT sectors, the root directory sectors start. The next 18 sectors are reserved for FATs. Out of this, the 0th sector (the first 512 bytes) is reserved as the boot sector. So far, you know that a floppy disk formatted in a Windows environment has a total of 2880 sectors. In this article, you will look at the FAT root directory entry on a floppy disk. In my previous article, “ Extract Floppy Disk Geometry from the Boot Sector,” you learned about floppy disk geometry formatted in a Windows environment for FAT.
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