Give an overview of WINDOWS 2000 file management.

Windows makes use of the NTFS and File Allocation Table file systems. The Older versions of the FAT file system had file name length limits plus had restrictions on the maximum size of FAT-formatted partitions or disks.

NTFS initiated with the Windows NT operating system that allowed ACL-based permission control. Multiple file streams, Hard links, attribute indexing, quota tracking, compression and mount-points for other file systems (called "junctions") are as well supported, though not all well-documented.

Unlike several other operating systems, Windows utilizes a drive letter abstraction at the user level to distinguish one disk or partition from another. For instance the path C:\WINDOWS\ stand for a directory WINDOWS on the partition represented by the letter C. The C drive is the major commonly used for the primary hard disk partition on which Windows is installed as well as from which it boots. This "tradition" has turn into so firmly ingrained that bugs came about in older versions of Windows which made assumptions that the drive that the operating system was installed on was C. The tradition of using "C" for the drive letter is able to be traced to MS-DOS where the letters A and B were reserved for up to two floppy disk drives in a common configuration A would be the 3½-inch floppy drive, and B the 5¼-inch one. Network drives may as well be mapped to drive letters.

Ever since Windows interacts with the user via a graphical user interface its documentation refers to directories as a folder which contains files and is represented graphically with a folder icon.