IT Management & Cyber Security

  Hard Disk Partitions refers to the creation of  logical drives  for effective memory management and a partition is the logical drive for storing the data. Hidden partition created on a drive can hide the data. The inter-partition gap is the space between the primary partition and the secondary partition. If the inter-partition drive contains the hidden data, use disk editor utilities like Disk Editor to change the information in the partition table. Doing so will remove all the references to the hidden partition, which have been hiding it from the operating system. Another way of hiding the data is to place the  digital evidence  at the end of the disk by declaring a smaller number of bytes than the actual size of the drive. Disk Editor allows  investigator  to access these hidden or vacant areas of the disk. The partitions are of two types: Primary partition:  it is the drive that holds the information regarding the operating system, system are...