FATWalker

FATWalker is a simple and straightforward utility for analyzing and “walking through” FAT partitions on any media readable by your computer, including hard disks, memory cards, USB flash drives, and floppy disks. FATWalker takes you through the low-level structure of the file system, and lets you view deleted files, regular files, as well as detailed attributes for each file.

How does it work?

FATWalker  implements its own driver for reading FAT partitions. It bypasses the Windows file system drivers and reads your disk hardware directly. The file systems it supports are FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and exFAT (FAT64).

This program may be useful to students of computer science (or professors) who are learning about (or teaching) file systems. It is also useful for browsing deleted files, and being able to restore them, from any FAT volume.

FATWalker is a cousin of the better-known program DiskDigger. If recovering lost files is what you’re after, DiskDigger is the solution.

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