![]() Available in WinHex only, not in X-Ways Forensics. Useful especially in conjunction with the function to initialize all free space. Initialize Directory Entries: On FAT volumes, WinHex can clear all currently unused directory entries, to thoroughly remove traces of previously existing files or earlier names/locations of existing files from the file system. ![]() names) and even contents of previously existing files. Initialize MFT Records: On NTFS volumes, WinHex can clear all currently unused $MFT (Master File Table) FILE records, which may contain metadata (e.g. ![]() Close any running or resident program that may write to the disk prior to using this command. This may be used in addition to "Initialize Free Space" to securely wipe confidential data on a drive or to minimize the space a compressed disk backup (like a WinHex backup) requires. Initialize Slack Space: Overwrites slack space (the unused bytes in the respective last clusters of all cluster chains, beyond the actual end of a file) with zero bytes. Available for partitions opened as drive letters. This effectively overwrites all data in unused parts of the disk and makes it impossible to recover this data. Free space on a drive can be initialized for security reasons. Initialize Free Space: Confidential information is possibly stored in currently unused parts of a drive as a result of normal delete, copy and save actions. It is recommended to invoke this command again after file operations on a drive to keep the information displayed by WinHex up to date. This enables WinHex to fill the directory browser and to display for each sector which file or directory it is allocated to. WinHex traverses all cluster chains and thereby generates a drive map. Take New Volume Snapshot: Available for partitions with one of the supported file systems. For example, this allows to copy/recover selected files from different paths in a single step. ![]() A recursive view means that not only files will be listed that are contained directly in the current directory, but also all files in all subdirectories of that directory and their subdirectories etc. Explore recursively: Changes into a recursive view for the directory that is currently listed in the directory browser or back to the normal view. ![]()
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