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From 2011: Quickly search for files in NTFS volumes parsing the Master File Table (MFT). A decent amount of how NTFS and MFT work was painstakingly reverse-engineered since it's undocumented.

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ntfs-cpu-search

Quickly search for files in NTFS volumes parsing the Master File Table (MFT). This implementation searches for substrings only.

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A precompiled version is provided under the release directory.

Background

This is the CPU-only release. An ntfs-amd-search also existed with contained both CPU and GPU implementations. That release won an honorable mention in the AMD OpenCL Competition back in 2011 (see amd\readme.pdf).

Vegnos Desktop Search

Vegnos supports glob and regular expression searches, as well as recovering files. This refined implementation is available here: http://www.vegnos.com/

Copyright

Copyright (c) Ateeq Sharfuddin. All rights reserved. Contact author if you want to use for commercial purposes.

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From 2011: Quickly search for files in NTFS volumes parsing the Master File Table (MFT). A decent amount of how NTFS and MFT work was painstakingly reverse-engineered since it's undocumented.

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