File system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. Most file systems make use of an underlying data storage device that offers access to an array of fixed-size blocks, sometimes called sectors. The file system software is responsible for organizing these sectors into files and directories, and keeping track of which sectors belong to which file and which are not being used. Most file systems address data in fixed-sized units called "clusters" or "blocks" which contain a certain number of disk sectors (usually 1-64).
A file system corruption could be a result of improper shutdown, virus infection or even a physical drive failure itself. Hence, proper knowledge of File system, associated failures etc are vital in Data Recovery.
Our team of data recovery engineers is well versed in all types of File Systems like: -
- FAT 16/ 32 (All Microsoft flavors, MAC, Linux/ Unix etc).
- NTFS (used by Windows NT/ XP/ 200x/ Vista etc).
- Linux Ext 2/ 3 and 4 used by different Linux variants.
- Apple HFS/ HFS + used by MAC OS.
- Unix HPFS/ UFS etc.
- ReiserFS (Linux and embedded Linux storage arrays).
- ISO 9660/ UDF etc used by optical media.
