Definition: Invalid files


Artificial files, incorrectly created by automatic recovery utilities like Chkdsk, Scandisk, Vrepair, Norton Disk Doctor, and many others. The content of such files do not normally have any value. This is because it may contain only a fragment of the data of the original file, or it may contain fragments of several files.




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FAT16

Older version of the FAT file system, based on 16-bit integers, has a limitation with respect to the size of partitions it can handle.

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