File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system that was developed by Microsoft to support small disks and simple folder structures. The file system is named File Allocation Table because it uses a table ...

I have a Home Theatre PC with Windows 2000 Pro and an 80GB hard drive. The drive is in two partitions, one for the OS and all programs, and the other exclusively for recordings. This means my average ...

The NTFS file system has allocation unit options that usually don’t matter unless there is a limitation. Rick Vanover explains how this matters for large volumes. We may earn from vendors via ...

The first file system to be used in a Microsoft operating system was the FAT system, which uses a file allocation table. This table is an index that creates a list of disk contents to record the ...

NTFS, which stands for NT file system and the New Technology File System, is the file system that many versions of the Windows and Windows Server operating systems (OSes) use for storing, organizing, ...

Something messed up my system a couple of days ago. All the applications, clicks, etc, started crawling even though the processor time stayed down to 1%. Scanning for viruses using a few different ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...