Data Recovery in Florida: Does Replacing A Corrupted File Table Help Data Recovery?
NTFS has many benefits over the FAT system. Not least of all, it is far more reliable and has made the dreaded ‘blue screen’ a thing of the past. This comes as a huge relief to those who struggled valiantly with or, more realistically, against the Windows 95 and other FAT file system based computer crashes.
In the event of system problems, the NTFS is far superior to the FAT system because it is a recoverable file system as it creates a log file of all communications made with the file system. This means the recovery process is far simpler and quicker as there is a record of all changes made and you can roll back changes to a state before the problem occurred.
The FAT system was likely to fail far more often, as it had a few special objects. If one of these failed, the sector where the particular special object existed would register a failure. NTFS does not have any of these special objects, which prevents this problem occurring. It also keeps many copies of the Master File Table. This means the system would replace a corrupted table with another.