Название: Data Recovery Techniques for Computer Forensics
Автор: Alex Khang, Sanchit Dhankhar, Sandeep Bhardwaj, Avnesh Verma, Satish Kumar Sharma
Издательство: Bentham Books
Год: 2025
Страниц: 545
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Data Recovery Techniques for Computer Forensics is a practical and comprehensive reference designed for professionals, students, and researchers in digital forensics, data recovery, and information security. This handbook provides clear, structured guidance on essential principles and practical techniques for recovering lost or compromised digital data in forensic investigations.

The book begins with the fundamentals of data recovery and examines the major causes of data loss, including software errors and hardware failures. It then explores contemporary data protection technologies and delves into the structure and organization of hard disks, laying a solid foundation for understanding data storage systems.

Specialized chapters cover the recovery and management of various file systems, including FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS, along with methods for partition recovery and an introduction to dynamic disk management. The final section introduces essential data security software used to protect and recover digital information.

The deleted files, hidden partitions, and encrypted data – these are the challenges computer forensics professionals face, tasked with recovering the hidden pieces of the digital puzzle. There are eleven chapters in the book. The introduction to elementary knowledge of data recovery is introduced in chapter 1 of this book. The reasons for data loss are discussed in Chapter 2, which also provides a detailed knowledge of hardware and software reasons for data loss. The data protecting technologies, elementary knowledge of hard disk, hard disk organization, common cases of partition recovery, FAT16 file system check, management of FAT32 file system, management of NTFS file system, and dynamic disk introduction were introduced in chapters 3 to 10 respectively, along with introduction of data security software in chapter 11.

Key Features:

-Covers basic and applied data recovery concepts for forensic applications.
-Explains causes of data loss and modern data protection technologies.
-Detailed chapters on hard disk structure, data organization, and partition recovery.
-Practical guidance on managing and recovering FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems.
-Introduces dynamic disk configurations and essential data security tools.

Readership:
Forensic analysts, IT professionals, forensics trainees, students, and researchers