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File slack / RAM slack: why does Windows write arbitrary RAM bytes to disk? Does Linux too?
I just read about file slack in a book about Windows 7. What I already (think to) know:
Windows stores data on the disk in clusters. A cluster usually contains 8 sectors of 512 bytes each, so 4096 ...
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How to read MFT on USB Hard Drive (NTFS, 1TB)?
I'm looking for a high-level method to read the MFT entries on an NTFS file system for a Seagate 1TB internal hard drive. The platform is Windows 7.
I need to fetch the filename, block size and ...
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Cloning a 512 sector size to Advanced Format WD Black drive
I have a old WD Black drive that is not Advanced Format. Due to it having one bad sector in a unused area I need to clone it to a new hard drive to avoid losing data. Unfortunately the same model of ...
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Does NTFS (or any file system) support files outside of the partition?
So on my C: drive, there was a file called BOOTSECT.BAK. Not knowing what it is, I opened it up in HxD and the first 14 bytes were B \0 O \0 O \0 T \0 M \0 G \0 R \0 corresponding to the UTF-16LE ...
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Sector-precise partition editor with resize NTFS?
Is there a sector-precise partition manager that can resize an NTFS partition? Accepting Windows software and Live CDs.
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NTFS; marking sectors bad using Linux
I have a massive ZFS array on my fileserver. Whenever a disk reports bad sectors to smartmon, I order a replacement, and I shelve the failing one.
And by "shelving the failing one", I mean that I ...
