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My computer regularly shuts itself down and when it restarts there i
always a message saying the error was something to do with FAT23
which I know has something to do with windows - what does it do and wh
is it causing a problem
 
FAT 32 is the file system you have chosen to store your files on the hard
disk. The other file system is NTFS.

When your computer shuts itself down, there are open files on the hard drive
that the OS does not get a chance to close them like would be down on a
normal shutdown. The FAT has references to these open files already stored
but since they did not get "finalized" the OS knows there is an error when
it starts up again.

The OS will try to run Check Disk (CHKDSK) when it finds a problem upon
checking the FAT (or NTFS) upon bootup and give this error message. It
should correct the errors but if the computer keeps shutting down by itself
there is a strong chance that at a time in the future a critical file will
be left open when the computer shuts down and this will leave the OS unable
to boot. You should find and fix the reason for the shutdowns.
 
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