LeRoy Cressy on 1 Nov 2005 16:51:07 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] OT - winxp file evaporation


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Doug Crompton wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think that you can find your file if you mount the filesystem as a
>>msdos file system
>>
>>mount -t msdos /dev/fatfs-dev /mountpoint
>>This will take away all of the long filenames from view, and every file
>>will be 8.3
>>
>>This might work, though I never tried it.
>>
> 
> I guess I could give that a try sometime but keep in mind this drive is
> not mounted on Linux it is a true WinXP system.
> 
> Doug

The second question is is the file system a ntfs or a vfat file system.
 If it is a vfat file system then you can use my suggestion above using
a KNOPPIX CD.  On the other hand, I think that you might have to use
some of the forensics utilities mentioned last week on this list.
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