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cluster’s status area in the FAT. That’s called the end-of-file marker.

Windows then goes to the folder storing the file and adds the filename and

the cluster’s number to the folder list. If the file requires more than one

cluster, Windows searches for the next open cluster and places the number of

the next cluster in the status area, filling and adding clusters until the entire

file is saved. The last cluster then receives the end-of-file marker

(0000FFFF).

Let’s run through an example of this process, starting by selecting an

arbitrary part of the FAT: from 03213ABB to 03213AC7. Assume you want

to save a file called mom.txt. Before saving the file, the FAT looks like

Figure 9-18.

Figure 9-18 The initial FAT

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