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May 17th, 2007 by eugene

PC File Systems

Reprinted, with permission, from The PC Guide
PC File Systems
 Reference Guide - Hard Disk Drives 
  • A Brief History of the Hard Disk Drive
  • Construction and Operation of the Hard Disk Drive
  • Hard Disk Geometry and Low-Level Data Structures
  • Hard Disk Performance, Quality and Reliability
  • Hard Disk BIOS and Capacity Factors
  • Hard Disk Interfaces and Configuration
  • Hard Disk Logical Structures and File Systems
    • Operating Systems and File Systems
    • PC File Systems
      • FAT
      • FAT32
      • Virtual FAT (VFAT)
      • NT File System (NTFS)
    • Major Disk Structures and the Boot Process
    • FAT File System Disk Volume Structures
    • Clusters and File Allocation
    • Partitioning, Partition Sizes and Drive Lettering
    • Disk Partitioning and Formatting Programs
    • Disk Compression

There are several different file systems that are commonly used in PCs. This section briefly lists them and discusses how they differ. Note that the rest of the discussion on file systems elaborates significantly on most of the file systems listed here.

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