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EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition
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EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition

by Steve Bunting
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
21h 5m
English
Sybex
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Hibernation File

With Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 allowing the computer to “hibernate” is an option. For a machine to power off and go to sleep and yet come back to life at the precise point where it went to sleep, the contents of RAM must be written to a file. Hence, you have the hibernation file, named hiberfil.sys, which is located in the root of the system drive.

Because the total contents of RAM are written to this file, this file will be the size of your system’s RAM memory. If the computer has never been in a hibernation mode, the file will still be the same size as your system RAM but will be filled with 00h characters. Once it has been in the hibernation mode, the contents will reflect the last time the machine was in hibernation ...

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