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 […]
Using FAT32 File Entry Record For Recovering Folders Using Software Logic
In my last installment I described the file entry record and its on-disk format. I used a ‘C’ structure to denote the different fields of the record and defined which five are most important to us when trying to recover a FAT32 file system where all the main file system components have been destroyed or […]
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