File Allocation Table (English Wikipedia)

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Kelder, Henk; (2003); FAT32.TXT for FAT32.IFS version 0.9.13. ( Archived 2013-05-11 at the Wayback Machine): "This byte [...] is not modified while running Windows 95 and neighter [sic] by SCANDISK or DEFRAG. [...] If another program sets the value to 0x00 for a file that has EAs these EAs will no longer be found using DosFindFirst/Next calls only. The other OS/2 calls for retrieving EAs (DosQueryPathInfo, DosQueryFileInfo and DosEnumAttribute) do not rely on this byte. Also the opposite could [...] occur. [...] In this situation only the performance of directory scans will be decreased. Both situations [...] are corrected by CHKDSK".
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