Have Scandisk do a total surface scan of your all hard drives, and let the antivirus program look at all parts of your system, including your random-access memory, boot sector and file allocation tables.
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NTFS has several technical improvements over the file systems that it superseded File Allocation Table ( FAT ) and High Performance File System ( HPFS ) such as improved support for file system journaling.
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The "'casino "'computer virus is a malicious virus that upon running the infected file, copies the File Allocation Tables ( FATs ) to random-access memory ( RAM ), then deletes the FAT from the hard disk.
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The down side was that this plan would require me to understand the intricacies of the File Allocation Table, or FAT, the method my computer uses to gather data into clusters and arrange them on the disk.
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The patent is part of what Microsoft says is its implementation of a broader system used to store computer files, called File Allocation Table, or FAT . But Microsoft does not claim control over the entire FAT system.
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The computer keeps track of where all the parts of files are with what is called a file-allocation table, or FAT . Problems can arise if the file allocation tables are not updated or clusters on your disk are lost.
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Examples of data structures stored on disk to retrieve files include the File Allocation Table ( FAT ) in the DOS file system and inodes in many UNIX file systems, as well as other operating system data structures ( also known as metadata ).
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I used data recovery in the sense that even if the worst case scenario of the data being deleted from the file allocation table, it might still exist on the hard disk and therefore recoverable .-- t 20 : 37, 20 November 2007 ( UTC)
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:: The way long file names are stored on FAT volumes has nothing to do with the size of each field in the File Allocation Table, which is what the number after " FAT " means, but it " is " specific to the FAT file system.
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A . When you delete the items in your Recycle Bin, you are not actually erasing the data from your computer but rather telling Windows ( which tracks such matters in its file allocation table ) that it is all right to write over those files with new ones.
