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   Linards Ticmanis to All   
   Re: Dir Make Up on contemporary PCs   
   04 Jun 07 02:29:04   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.cbm   
   From: ticmanis@gmx.de   
      
   Level13 wrote:   
   > I had a pretty fine piece of utility on my Commodore 64 -- namely, Dir   
   > Make Up. With this software I was able to check and change a lot of   
   > things on a floppy. One thing I found particularly useful was   
   > following the "trail" of a file from the directory list through all   
   > the blocks that were used by the file (initial track and sector were   
   > listed in the directory list, and from there you could follow the   
   > blocks on which the file resided).   
   >   
   > Is there something similar available for contemporary PCs - for   
   > examining hard disks and other media?   
      
   For NTFS disks, I doubt it, given that Microsoft has never revealed how   
   NTFS works in detail.   
      
   For FAT-based disks, you might have a better chance.   
      
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   Linards Ticmanis   
      
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