Posts tagged: #ntfs

How deleted files survive in unallocated clusters, how to pull them out by signature, and the reasons (TRIM, fragmentation) the data often is not there.

The bytes past a file's logical end, inside its last cluster, where fragments of older deleted files survive. How slack works and how to extract it.

Detect filesystems from the superblock instead of trusting the partition type byte. Magic numbers, the offsets that trip people up, and faking it.