A computer file structure.
Because it is!
it prevents computer viruses
File organization and management is about organizing your data into a form such that you can retrieve it easily. On a personal computer, you can crete your filing system. On a computer at work, you may have to follow a structure your company uses, or you may have the discretion to organize your files your way.
To generate a hard copy for filing purposes.
A manual filing system is filing documents using paper and cabinets. The documents are filed within a folder and then stored, by some means of categorization or another, in a cabinet for later retrieval. This is the opposite of storing documents within folders on your computer's hard drive. In the computer world the documents are stored in a digital filing system, as opposed to the physical filing system in the manual way.
A manual system is one where filing is literally done by hand and where the information is usually stored on cards or in paper files. An electronic filing system is one where information consists of computer data and where a computer system sees to filing, sorting and recovering the data.
Address Book. File Boxes. Filing Cabinets. Diary. Yellow Pages. Telephone Directory. Birthday Book. Guest Lists.
# Computer # Filing cabinet # Desk # Chair # Telephone # Stationary # Worker
The Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
Helps to organize related files together. Folders are called directories in some operating systems (e.g. MSDOS), but the analogy to a paper file folder was seen as helpful to understanding when graphical OSs were created.
It does depend on the type of computer being looked at, but this information is usually available in the properties section of the computer. FAT32 filing system is normally found in Windows 98 computers and later versions of windows do not have this filing system.