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File System Forensic Analysis
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File System Forensic Analysis

by Brian Carrier
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
600 pages
16h 26m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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10. FAT Data Structures

In the previous chapter, we examined the basic concepts of a FAT file system and how to analyze it. Now we are going to get more detailed and examine the data structures that make up FAT. This chapter will ignore the five-category model and instead focus on each individual data structure. This makes it easier to understand FAT because many of the data structures are in more than one category. I assume that you have already read Chapter 9, “FAT Concepts and Analysis,” or that you are reading it in parallel. All the hexdumps and data shown in this chapter correspond to the data that were analyzed in Chapter 9 using tools from The Sleuth Kit (TSK).

Boot Sector

The boot sector is located in the first sector of FAT file system ...

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