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Why is NTFS case sensitive?

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Mar 15, 202613827 views
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I personally thought that NTFS was case insensitive, since you can type cmd, CMD, cMd or even CmD and still get the command prompt. However, why is it that during a , sometimes it fixes capitalization in some files? If it didn't care about the case, it shouldn't matter about that, and CHKDSK should…

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CHKDSK x: /f /r

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The case sensitivity of a file system is a separate issue from that of an operating system. Latest Windows releases are based on the NT kernel, which inherits a lot of properties of the non-NT Windows 95 and even MS-DOS. Along with the NT kernel the…

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