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Virtually all operating systems come with tools to manage the hard disk. The vast majority of these tools are unable to read metafiles such as the $MFT file in Windows 7. Why is this?



▸ The $MFT file is actually not part of the file system.

▸ Metafiles are database internal to the file system and are therefore locked out whenever the file system is mounted.

▸ While the metafiles are an integral part of the file system, the files themselves reside outside of the directory structure.

▸ Metafiles are protected system files and require access that user-level utilities are not granted by the OS.
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