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Analyzing Master Boot Record for Forensic Investigations

Ghania Al Sadi. Published in Information Sciences

Analyzing Master Boot Record for Forensic Investigations
International Journal of Applied Information Systems
Year of Publication: 2016
Publisher: Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Series: Volume 10 Number 8
Authors: Ghania Al Sadi
10.5120/ijais2016451541
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  1. Ghania Al Sadi. Article: Analyzing Master Boot Record for Forensic Investigations. International Journal of Applied Information Systems 10(8):22-26, April 2016. BibTeX

    @article{key:article,
	author = "Ghania Al Sadi",
	title = "Article: Analyzing Master Boot Record for Forensic Investigations",
	journal = "International Journal of Applied Information Systems",
	year = 2016,
	volume = 10,
	number = 8,
	pages = "22-26",
	month = "April",
	note = "Published by Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA"
}

Abstract

As a main knowledge, extracting information for examination to be used as evidence or even to recover lost data need a full understand of logical and physical storage media structure used to store the required information in the computer. In digital forensic analysis, Master Boot Record is captured to extract the required information of the hard disk to support the investigation process. This research is studying the MBR structure by providing an experiment of the MBR analysis.

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Keywords

MBR, Bootstrap, Partition Table, Magic Number, Forensic Investigation