Master File Table cleanup utility?
Can anyone recommend a tool for MFT cleanup? I want to in my MFT restore the entries for files which once existed but have been deleted to a "pristine" state, with zeroed out entries. ...
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how indexing happens on a NTFS drive
how does the computer retrive a particular entry in the MFT table for a file or directory? I read through many documents which describe the structure of NTFS and MFT, but i fail to understand say i have a file in E:\documents\test.txt, how can i identify it's entry in the MFT index. Is it sequential? ...
Location of MFT file?
I have a partition, formatted as NTFS. I have studied that devices formatted as NTFS have a MFT (Master File Table) which contains a lot of information about the contents of a devices. Is MFT really a file? Where is it located? How can I view it? I, actually want to view the $BITMAP to know the locations of all the files and directo...
Is it possible to read a filesize directly from MFT info in windows?
Is it possible to get file size info in MFT? I want to make use of dwRecLength, however I found it is 0 sometimes. struct NTFS_MFT_FILE { char szSignature[4]; // Signature "FILE" WORD wFixupOffset; // offset to fixup pattern WORD wFixupSize; // Size of fixup-list +1 LONGLONG...