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Master File Table (MFT) is an integral component of the NTFS file system. The MFT contains metadata about every file, directory, and metafile on an NTFS volume. It includes filenames, locations, size, and permissions.

The Master File Table (MFT) contains metadata about every file, directory, and metafile on an volume. It includes filenames, locations, size, and permissions. Its structure supports algorithms which minimize disk fragmentation. A directory entry consists of a filename and a "file ID", which is the record number representing the file in the Master File Table. The file ID also contains a reuse count to detect stale references.

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Reading NTFS volume root fails unless buffer size is a multiple of 512

I am playing around with the MFT, starting by reading the root of my C: drive using P/Invoke calls. Using the code below, I get the expected results if the buffer size is a multiple of 512, but otherwise the read fails with ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.…
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Size of MFT Vs Parsing of MFT

Am working in a project where i have to enumerate file names from a drive. I tried two methods MFT parsing and Multi threading with FindFirstFile. I compared the execution time of both implementation and it shows lesser the MFT size faster its…
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Directory organization in NTFS

Write a parser file system NTFS. I need to consistently read catalogs and display information about the contents of the selected directory, that is only necessary to read the MFT record with information about the files and subdirectories. Question:…
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Can a mft_reference correspond to two different files at different time?

I am working on parsing USN Journal files now, and what I know is that in USN Journal log entry, there is a mft_reference field, it references the corresponding FileRecord in MFT table. After a period of time, the USN Journal files may accumulate…
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How to get to last NTFS MFT record?

I am writing a utility to parse MFT in NTFS. So far I have written the code to get a 1024 byte MFT record and traverse its attributes. As far as I know that MFT starts allocating records to user files from record number 0x23 so I am looping from…
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How to protect sectors from being written in NTFS

I'm trying to implement an anti-forensics tool on an ntfs partition. I need to preserve 1GB (in a precise pysical location) of space from being written by the filesystem. My ideas: Try to create a 1gb file in a specific location (how?) so it will…
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Problem with locating Raw Data with DataRun NTFS

I have an image of a NTFS file which contains multiple test file. When i get to a windows Bin i encounter the data runs : 1 cluster => 4096 / 0x1000 bytes 22 BD 00 42 01 21 56 67 FF 11 03 97 11 13 D7 00. Normally it would means that i have 4 runs…
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How do recovery softwares access the mft table directly?

Im curious how do recovery softwares open the Master File Table. Like do they do api calls ?
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I can't read mft and convert VB.net to C

I try to convert VB.NET source code to C. It's purpose is to show me if my hard disk is NTFS. Supposedly reads MFT and can compare the third byte, if is 78 decimal (N) and 84 (T) and so on...returns 0 for "true", but I can't do it; my code it…
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