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Paul Mullen (Pcguru)
Posted on Monday, Mar 14, 2005 - 23:56:   
I want to write a script to search a hard drive but it would be much more efficient if I knew where the first data cluster started. I am searching for data that will be aligned on 1kb boundaries.

On an NTFS drive this is trivial as Cluster 0 starts with Sector 0 but on a FAT drive the start of data (and hence the cluster boundaries) depend on the size of FAT etc.

Does anyone have a script that will give the position of the first data cluster (and hopefully also the cluster size) ?
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Eugene P. Benitez
Username: uggenben

Registered: 1-1997
Posted on Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 - 23:28:   
When I cut and paste it writes the first data that I cut last to the file. it is not in order. how come?

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