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.

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft said the deal specifically included the right for Sharp to use exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) technology in smartphones built on the Android operating system. While Sharp is ...

I am the kind of person who needs to switch between both the OS daily. So I needed a format that is both read and write on both the systems. It is where exFAT or Extended File Allocation Table ...

The poster-child for Microsoft's intellectual property aggression were the File Allocation Table (FAT) patents. But the Microsoft of then is not the Microsoft of now. First, Microsoft open-sourced ...

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 ...

The peer-to-peer file sharing tool ... cause of "overlapped extent allocation" errors (meaning that you have two files referencing the same "extend") on some Mac OS X systems.