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Each disk of your computer has its own compressed old files, which are stored in some portion of it and which gets accumulated day by day.For deleting them from your hard disks so as to free the space, u can use the disk cleanup application.


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its a hard drive


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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.


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To organize the way that files are stored on a computer disk, so that all the information belonging to a file, is stored on a single contiguous area on the disk.


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Ultimately on to some physical media device such as magnetic tape, disk, optical disk or solid state disk. However if the files are paper files they would be stored in a filing cabinet or box in an archive.


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