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re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector?
Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 9:31 pm
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Posted by Ari (1208 messages posted)


Some files are contiguous, and others have their bits scattered all over the drive. But at any given time, each sector on the drive either has nothing on it, or has some tiny portion of some file on it.


On Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:13 pm, mel wrote:
>i don't believe it works that way. i don't think files are stored as one distinct
>blob on the drive that can be located. i may be wrong but you should check that
>out before you go mad trying to locate it.


Written in response to:
re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (mel: Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:13 pm)

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*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ricer46: Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 5:56 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ari: Sat, May 17, 2008, 4:26 pm)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (mel: Sat, May 17, 2008, 7:13 pm)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ari: Sat, May 17, 2008, 9:31 pm)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ricer46: Sun, May 18, 2008, 5:56 am)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ricer46: Sun, May 18, 2008, 5:55 am)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (David: Sun, May 18, 2008, 5:53 am)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ari: Sun, May 18, 2008, 7:14 am)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (David: Sun, May 18, 2008, 7:36 am)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Larry: Mon, May 19, 2008, 11:24 am)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Phil: Mon, May 19, 2008, 3:44 pm)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ari: Mon, May 19, 2008, 5:49 pm)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Phil: Mon, May 19, 2008, 5:55 pm)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (tom56: Mon, May 19, 2008, 9:13 pm)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ari: Mon, May 19, 2008, 9:29 pm)
-re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Quasimodo: Tue, May 20, 2008, 9:51 am)
*re: How to find what file occupies a particular sector? (Ari: Tue, May 20, 2008, 10:59 am)
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