I am a pretty visual guy and because of that my problem solving skills are based on viewing. When trying to recover data from a corrupt file system I like to use a hex editor and view the system areas of the drive to make sure that everything is intact. There have been many times […]
View It Now NTFS File System Viewer
I have worked with Microsoft file systems since DOS 3.3. From FAT12, to the current NTFS 5.0 Microsoft has always strived to make their file systems fast and reliable. However, there has always been one major drawback. Their file systems have always been too centralized. What I mean by that is when storing the file system […]
Hard Drive Recovery and Remote Diagnostics… Old School gone retro…
When I first started writing hard drive recovery software, many, many, years ago Microsoft file systems were pretty straight forward. It was a simple FAT, with some file entry tables scattered throughout the drive with a few key system components. In addition, the file system was designed to be fairly virtual. In other words, if […]