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The MFT is the place where information about every file and directory on an NTFS volume is stored.
The Master File Table contains a listing for each file on an NTFS file system volume. All information regarding the files is stored either in the master file table itself or in a space outside the table which is identified within the table.
The NTFS file system contains at its core, a file called the master file table or the MFT. There is at least one entry in the MFT for every file on an NTFS volume, including the MFT itself. All information about a file, including its size, time and date stamps, permissions, and data content, is stored either in MFT entries, or in space outside the MFT that is described by MFT entries.
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Master File Table
There is no any file.. All file index is stored in MBR (Master Boot Record)..
MFT stands for the Master File Table. It's like the table of contentsfor your hard disk. You can't see it from Windows because it's not afile or a folder, although it is stored on your hard disk.by East West Technologies Sharjah
file allocation table (fat)
If you mean in computing terms - File Allocation Table. It's the area on a disk where information about the files stored on that disk is stored.
MFT (Master File Table) to hold records about files and their locations.
A view is a virtual table that does not really exist but is instead derived from one or more base tables. Since it is a virtual table no stored file is created to store the contents of a view only definition of view is stored.
A file is nothing but a term used by database administrators and programmers where data is stored in a specific format. In short, a file is where in all the records or sets of records are stored on a computer.