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

But when I try to dir, or run a program I get "bad file allocation table, drive c:". Scandisk runs but sits blank as the hard drive churns away, same with DIR, CHKDSK.<BR><BR>Anyone ever seen this ...

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 ...

Operating systems need access to such file allocation tables if they are to work (read data and write data). When you Quick Format a drive, it deletes the file allocation table and creates a fresh ...