NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

Microsoft is testing Insider builds that use the modern ReFS file format instead of the more common NTFS for a clean installation of Windows 11. When you install a supported version of Windows using ...

The error “Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS” usually occurs when you install Windows on a GPT disk and the EFI system ...

Microsofot has been working on a newer and better file system for Windows, but why is it taking so long to be widely adopted?

Microsoft introduced the New Technology File System (NTFS), a proprietary journaling file system, in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Since then, it replaced 1977's File Allocation Table (FAT) file system in ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has agreed to include Paragon Software's NTFS3 kernel driver, giving the Linux kernel 5.15 release improved support for Microsoft's NTFS file system. But he also had some ...

What just happened? The Windows 11 2024 Update is here, bringing with it a significant boost to file transfer speeds thanks to a technology from the server realm – Resilient File System with its Block ...

On your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, if you open the Disk Management tool and you see that an SSD or HDD drive showing as RAW partition, that is because the volume is damaged and has lost its ...

Developers have released an unofficial fix for a Windows bug that could lead to the corruption of an NTFS volume by merely viewing a specially crafted file. Earlier this month, BleepingComputer ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...