Errors And Resolution For Fat File System Corruption

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FAT file system is prone to various corruption issues. Various errors give frequent visits to FAT file system (File Allocation Table). Timely help and appropriate knowledge could save your partitions based on FAT.
We know that FAT file system chains various files together and allocates space to them. Various common error messages occur over time and causes inaccessibility of FAT based partitions in Windows OS environment. Such errors occur due to damage to the logical structure of the hard drive. Most of such errors are detected by the standard hard drive error-checking tools, which also analyze the integrity of file system. In Windows operating system, this is done using CHKDSK utility.
In some extreme conditions, such errors cannot be detected and fixed using CHKSDK and thus your FAT file system partition become inaccessible. This behavior leads to partition loss and you need help of third party tools to Recover Partition.
The file system error messages are usually caused by logical corruption to the ...
... hard drive. Program crashes generally cause file system errors. A power failure or power surge on a system running Windows operating system results into file system errors as the files cannot be closed properly. Following are some of the frequently occurring errors in FAT file system partition.
Lost Disk Clusters - Any of the Windows users may face this issue. Lost clusters are the ones, which are marked as being used in FAT, but operating system can’t link them to a file. Hard drive checking tools scan whole hard drive partition for lost clusters. Such errors are generally caused by the interrupted file activity.
Invalid Files/Directories - In some cases, internal structure of the files/directories may get damaged and they become inaccessible. Therefore some files/directories are not following “rules” of how the particular file/directory has to be placed.
Allocation/FAT Errors - Sometimes the entries in FAT (File Allocation Table) may get damaged due to invalid values in them.
Cross-linked Files - In some cases, two files may point same memory location on the hard drive. The same memory location cannot be allocated to two files. The only solution for this problem is to delete one file.
All these errors are responsible for partition loss and hence inaccessibility of those partitions. But you can recover partition easily using Windows recovery software that scans the hard disk completely and provides the user with all the lost or damaged or deleted data. Software is able to recover partition that are deleted, formatted or corrupt due to reasons such as hard disk formatting, accidental deletion of hard disk partition, virus attack, improper system shut down, and Windows registry corruption. One must try the demo version first before purchasing it.