Disk Allocation Issues and File Loss in Windows

The NTFS (New Technology File System) file system supports several volume and file level characteristics that might cause free hard drive space to be either reported as lost or misreported. You may observe this issue if an NTFS file system volume suddenly becomes really full. In this situation, you can not save new files or folders to the drive and can not access the existing ones. The file inaccessibility causes file loss and you need to go for File Recovery tools to sort out the software based problems.

This situation might take place when a user gains unauthorized or malicious access to an NTFS file system volume on which either a very large file or huge amount of small files are secretly stored and then restricts or removes the NTFS file system permissions on the copied files. This issue might also occur after power failure or a system malfunction that results into volume or partition corruption. This behavior of Microsoft Windows and disk space allocation issues with NTFS volume may take place due to any of the below given causes:

The cluster size of NTFS file system volume is so large for the standard sized files, which are being stored.

NTFS permissions or the file attributes prevent the files or folders from being either accessed or displayed when you employ either Windows command prompt or the Microsoft Windows Explorer. The file or folder path is exceeding 255 characters.

File or folder names are using reserved or invalid characters.

NTFS file system metafiles (like the MFT [Master File Table]) have grown and could not be unallocated. The files and folders have exchange data streams.

The NTFS file system has got corrupted and it causes Microsoft Windows to report the free disk space as in use. NTFS features are causing the file-allocation confusion.

The ultimate result would be the inaccessibility and loss of your critical files. In such cases, File Recovery solutions are required to sort out the issue.

The recovery of lost files can easily be performed with the help of File Recovery Software that are capable of scanning the whole Windows hard drive and extracting all the lost, missing, deleted and inaccessible files from it. These software are easy to use and provide user-friendly recovery.

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