NTFS is the primary file system for Windows 11 and other modern versions of Windows that supports disk quotas and large volume sizes ...

When you're reformatting a drive, memory card, or flash drive you need to pick a file format. If you see FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, but don't know which one to pick, here's what you need to know.

The NTFS file system supports backward compatibility with the previous versions. Moreover, it keeps track of any modifications to the file system and is used to recover the file system.

File systems act as a layer of data to manage the information on the disk. A file system like NTFS or FAT works as something of a script for the computer to tell it how to manage data on a disk. With ...

For example, traversing a file system tree from the root node to the file of interest requires jumping from an inode to a directory file (potentially multi-indexed) to the file location.

The most powerful file-recovery software we've seen for modern Windows system. Compared to its freeware competitor, Recuva, it found and recovered a larger number of deleted files. Of course, if ...

How comes nobody has invented utility to repair the NTFS file system? Apple users get the wonderful Diskwarrior tool but Windows users get nothing. With all the app designers out there, there does ...

What cluster size have these been set to? Very often, converting FAT/FAT32 to NTFS causes 512 byte (0.5K) clusters. I've found out this is due to the placement of certain system files.

Microsoft seems to be trying to move to a new file system with ReFS, but can it actually replace NTFS in Windows? Probably not yet.