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Granted, hardly anyone uses the FAT file system any more because it limits you to using a 2 GB partition, which, by today's standards, is ridiculously small. But we wanted to demonstrate the cluster size concept with the FAT file system because the numbers are small, which makes the math easier.

The same concept applies to the FAT-32 file system; the only difference is that the FAT-...

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How disk cluster size affects data recovery processes

Now that you understand the basics of performing a simple file recovery using EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.0.1, the next step is to understand how disk cluster size affects data recovery.

But before we talk about disk clusters, we want to mention that the Data Recovery Wizard tr...

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Now let's talk about the recovery process. Often when someone erases a file that they really need to get back, the first thing they do is install a data recovery utility. Bad idea! Remember, the deleted file still exists on your hard drive, but the operating system has flagged the space occupied by the file as being available. This means that if files are written to the hard disk (such as occur...

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If a file physically damaged, your only hope of recovering it (without a backup) is to reconstruct the file. Many applications, such as Microsoft Office, place uniform headers at the beginning of files to designate that the file belongs to that application. Some utilities can be used to manually reconstruct file headers so that at least a portion of the file can be recovered.

In man...

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Introduction
In this data recovery step-by-step guide, technologies that Windows administrators can use to retrieve lost or corrupted data. Data recovery topics include how to create boot disks, calculate disk cluster size, and recover corrupt boot sectors.

How to recover data

As a card-ca...

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2. NTFS Files: $MFT (0)
2.1. Overview
In NTFS, everything on disk is a file. Even the metadata is stored as a set of files. The Master File Table (MFT) is an index of every file on the volume. For each file, the MFT keeps a set of records called attributes and each attribute stores a different type of information.

2.2. $MFT Attributes
Table 3.2. $MFT Attributes

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Chapter 3. NTFS Files
1. Overview
Everything on an NTFS volume is a file. There are two categories: Metadata and Normal. The Metadata files contain information about the volume and the Normal files contain your data.

1.1.    Layout of the Volume
Below is a table of files found on a Win2K volume (Key).

Ta...

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You encrypt or decrypt a folder or file by setting the encryption property for folders and files just as you set any other attribute such as read-only, compressed, or hidden. If you encrypt a folder, all files and subfolders created in the encrypted folder are automatically encrypted. It is recommended that you encrypt at the folder level.

You can also encrypt or decrypt a file or f...

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16. Attribute -$LOGGED_UTILITY_STREAM (0x100)
16.1. Overview
As defined in $AttrDef, this attribute has a no minimum size but a maximum of 65536 bytes.

16.2. Layout of the Attribute
As an attribute it's no different to a named data attribute Contents depend on the name of the $DATA stream

Table 2.40. Layout of the $LOGGED_UTILITY_STREAM (0x100) attribute

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14. Attribute - $EA_INFORMATION (0xD0)
14.1. Overview
Used to implement under NTFS the HPFS extended attributes used by the information subsystem of OS/2 and OS/2 clients of Windows NT servers. This file attribute may be non-resident because its stream is likely to grow. As defined in $AttrDef, this attribute has a minimum and a maximum size of 8 bytes.

14.2. Layout of the ...