January, 2007

Understanding NTFS file system

by Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting

In this article I will cover the basic concepts of NTFS file system. In NTFS (New Technologies File System) all important data like the basic file system administrative data are stored in a file and these files can be stored anywhere in a particular volume. These files don’t have reserved space as other file systems (FAT) have. Only thing which is consistent in NTFS is that the first sector of disk volume contains the boot sector and boot code.

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