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by fishor
09 Jan 2013, 08:44
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: dirty marker for fat filesystems
Replies: 2
Views: 3870

Re: dirty marker for fat filesystems

Testdisk only recognise that boot sector and backup bootsector are different.
First sectors (Boot code and partition information) are not identical.
A valid FAT Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.

No information about dirty flag set ...
by fishor
06 Jan 2013, 14:14
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: dirty marker for fat filesystems
Replies: 2
Views: 3870

dirty marker for fat filesystems

Hallo all,

i'm linux developer and do some computer forensic as hobby. Currently
i discovered for my self that fat32/16/12 have reserved field which is used by windows to mark probably dirty filesystem. Different version of widnwos handle it in different ways. For example XP and 2000 will set it on ...