Re: A different kind of security issue...
From: angus@frysystems.com.auDate: 08/21/01
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:08:57 +0930 From: angus@frysystems.com.au Subject: Re: A different kind of security issue... To: SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com Message-id: <01K7E4FKOC3I004ZMX@internode.on.net>
Manny,
You're not going crazy. This happened to me recently on an NT4 system, again
with NTFS. After the NTFS format files did still remain.
I was able to clear the drive with a DOS bootdisk, using Fdisk to remove the
non-DOS partitions, creating DOS partitions, formatting those, then deleting
the partitions again.
Interesting to note, the hard drive actually had problems. It was a 10Gb drive
that the BIOS could recognise as 10Gb but the NT install/DOS FDISK only
recognised 8Gb and NT install would only allow a maximum partition size of
4Gb. This could indicate that information existed in part of the hard drive
that could not be "reached" when performing the format. I would be interested
to know if you had similar problems with the hard drive in the laptop.
Angus Fry
Fry Systems Pty Ltd
angus@frysystems.com.au
> I did a full format on the drive, again choosing NTFS. I reinstalled Win2k,
> not choosing any repair or recovery options to save existing data. Upon
> browsing drive C, I was surprised to find that some of the directories that
> existed for the previous user were still there, even after the full format.
> The files within these directories were also intact. I shudder to think what
> would have happed if I hadn't stumbled accross this.
>
> Has anyone ever seen/heard of an NTFS file system doing this? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Manny
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