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lost cluster

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lost cluster

Disk records that have lost their identification with a file name. This can happen if a file is not closed properly, which can sometimes occur if the computer is turned off without quitting the application first. See DOS Chkdsk.


lost cluster [′lȯst ′kləs·tər]
(computer science)
Disk records that are not associated with a file name in a disk directory.


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The company configured each platform and then created space-eating file types on each system including Microsoft and Netscape Internet cache and history files, deleted files sent to the Windows Recycle Bin, temporary files, and lost cluster files.
While scanning for viruses, Virus ALERT now also checks for lost clusters, cross linked clusters, invalid cluster numbers, invalid allocation sizes, and fragmented files.
 
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