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29. Deleting A File

  1. Find directory entry for file to delete

  2. Using starting cluster value in the root directory, set all FAT entries in file's cluster chain to zero

  3. Deallocate directory entry by overwriting first byte of the entry with 0xE5 (å)

     

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