You may see FAT_FILE_SYSTEM Blue Screen because of many different reasons such as faulty Hardware, bad sectors in Hard Drive, etc. The main cause is disk corruption in the file system or bad blocks ...

The file system used in DOS, OS/2 and many versions of Windows. The name comes from the "file allocation table" that is used to to keep track of the data on the disk. See FAT and FAT32. THIS ...

NTFS and FAT are a file system that represents a technique of organizing and storing the data on the drive. These file systems also specify what type of attributes can be attached to a file such as ...

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of File System Forensic Analysis is posted with permission from Addison-Wesley Professional. The last chapter provided an overview of volume analysis and why it’s important ...

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 ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, and it holds an interesting change: the max size limit on FAT32 partitions is being bumped up to 2TB. FAT32 is a ...

For years, Microsoft used its patents as a way to profit from open-source products. The poster-child for Microsoft's intellectual property aggression were the File Allocation Table (FAT) patents. But ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...