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Annals of R.S.C.B., ISSN:1583-6258, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2021, Pages. 19600- 19611 Received 05 March 2021; Accepted 01 April 2021. A Novel tool for Data Recovery in cyber forensics Revathi Jagarlamudi1 MTech Student, Department of CSE (Cyber Security and digital Forensics), Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation,Vaddeswaram, A.P, India, [email protected] Dr. G. Rama koteswar Rao2 Professor, Department of CSIT(Computer Science and Information Technology),Koneru Lakshmaiah Educational Foundation,Vaddeswaram, A.P, India, [email protected] ABSTRACT-Digital forensics has become an essential bit of many cyber security programs universally and information recovery is a vital segment of cyber forensics. Data recovery mechanism plays a fundamental role in ensuring the security of computer information and it is a hot stock of current informatization in many industries. By exploring the information storage structure of the hard disc, this paper addresses the fundamental technology of hard disc, data recovery and discusses the information recovery technique and its realization combined with the specific software development. FAT and NTFS are considered as the popular file systems supported by Windows OS. Aiming towards information loss on Windows file systems this paper concentrates upon the essential objectives of information recovery on Windows FAT and NTFS and provides corresponding resolution. Keywords: Data Recovery, Hard disc, Windows file systems, File allocation table, NTFS. I. INTRODUCTION With the rapid growth of data technology, computers play a progressively crucial part in every individual’s work and life, and computer information security issues are getting increasingly distressed. Plentiful data is put away as information on file systems. As a principal part of data management, the security of information has been paid increasingly concerned attention by every individual. Stepwise instructions to recuperate lost information rapidly and effectively becomes an important issue. The loss and destruction or disruption of information usually cause irreparable consequences [1]. As of now, the share in market for Windows operating system surpasses 92%, and FAT and NTFS[2] are the mainstream file systems supported by Windows OS. Consequently, this paper focuses predominantly on the development of data recovery application for Windows FAT32 and NTFS[3]. A. Fat File System The file allocation table file system or FAT is developed for hard drives and is used to administer files on the hard drives through the operating system[4]. It is comprised of four areas. They are: Reserved sectors The originally reserved area (logical sector 0) is the Boot Sector (likewise called Volume Boot Record or essentially VBR). It incorporates a territory called the BIOS Parameter Block (BPB) which contains some fundamental file system data, specifically its type and pointers to the area of different sections, and ordinarily contains the boot loader code of OS(operating system). FAT Region FAT Region commonly contains two duplicates of the File Allocation Table with the scope of checking the redundancy. They are occasionally utilized by the disc repair serviceability. These are guides of the Data Region, demonstrating which clusters are utilized by documents and directories. In FAT12 and FAT16 they promptly follow the reserved sectors. FAT Region= (number of FATs) * (number of sectors per FAT) Root Directory Region This is a Directory Table which stores information regarding the documents and directories situated in the root directory. It is just utilized with FAT12 and FAT16 and forces on the root directory a fixed most extreme size which is pre-allocated at making of this volume. FAT32 stores the source index in Data Region, alongside documents and distinct directories, permitting it to develop without such a constraint. Root Directory Region= (number of root entries * 32)/(number of bytes per sector)Data Region This region is the area where the genuine document and the directory data is stored and takes up a large portion of the segment. 19600 http://annalsofrscb.ro Annals of R.S.C.B., ISSN:1583-6258, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2021, Pages. 19600- 19611 Received 05 March 2021; Accepted 01 April 2021. Data Region= (number of clusters) * (number of sectors per cluster) B. Classification Of Data Recovery From the viewpoint of data recovery strategies, there are especially three kinds of software recovery techniques, they are software and hardware recovery techniques and deep signal recovery techniques. The software recovery technique is mostly to utilize data recuperation software to regain information when the hard disc can in any case be utilized. This recovery technique is low in recuperation cost, yet it is weak for those hard discs that have been physically damaged. Software and hardware mixed technique is to fix the hard disc or open the disc to read the information within the disc and afterwards utilize the software to reestablish the information[5]. The deep signal recovery technique analyzes the condition of the deep magnetic medium on the surface area of the disc and illuminates the crystal with rays of various wavelengths and various intensities to generate distinctive reflection, refraction and diffraction signals [6]. However, because of the complexness of the technology and the high price of recovery along these lines, and as of now couple of countries on the planet can have such technology. just few large-scale computer organizations and government offices at no cost will have this degree of data recovery equipment [7]. II. LITERATURE SURVEY Ref [7] Zhang Kai, Cheng En and Gao Qinquan focused on the demand of cyber forensics dependent on NTFS file system and proposed a strategy for object-arranged technique to design and examine NTFS file system. The acquire relationship and encapsulation of classes are utilized to profoundly examine various kinds of data resources. It accomplishes the typical file analysis as well as recovers the deleted file. A solid data source for the PC forensics is given. Simultaneously, numerous interfaces have reference incentive for the idea of upper cyber forensic software. Ref [8] Sameer H. Mahant B.B. Meshram stated that discovering evidence in deleted documents and restoring them is significant for investigation. They portrayed the inward details on NTFS file system and how does it handle the deleted documents, which could be utilized to check the results of recovery applications. They have likewise proposed a strategy which will help in quicker recovery of deleted documents. Ref [16] Van Dai Tran, Dong-Joo Park targeted on flash memory, this memory has an ever-increasing number of applications throughout everyday life and capacity improvement solutions are generally applied in the support gadgets. It is critical to recover information when something turns out badly with Flash memory in cases a sudden power outage or failure. In this manner, recovering information is a fast and furious research field and draws in a great deal of researchers. Until now, there are numerous specialized solutions have been proposed. Ref [20] Joe Buchanan-Wollaston, Tim Storer and William Glisson has compared the information recovery abilities of five applications under indistinguishable conditions to survey the recovery speed with which applications complete the information recovery process and the degree of the variations between the applications regarding the files recovered. No two applications produced identical outcomes, and no application recuperated all the files in a disk image ("all" is characterized at the aggregate of the distinct documents collectively recuperated by the tools). Ref [21] Yinghua Guo and Jill Slay focused on mapping the essential elements of the cyber forensic discipline is an amazing methodology for making a function- oriented validation and confirmation worldview for computerized forensic tools. The utility of the methodology is shown with regards to the information recovery function through the specification of information recovery prerequisites and a reference set for testing applications that actualize the information recovery function. Validating a computerized forensic application is reduced to testing the application against the reference set. III. ANALYSIS ON DATA RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY A. Hard Disk Storage Structure To recover the deleted data, right off the bat we should comprehend the standards of data storage. The storage structure of the hard disc includes five sections MBR area, DBR region, FAT area, Dir section and data area. 2 19601 http://annalsofrscb.ro Annals of R.S.C.B., ISSN:1583-6258, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2021, Pages. 19600- 19611 Received 05 March 2021; Accepted 01 April 2021. Fig1: Hard disk storage structure The MBR (Main Boot Record) area [8] is situated in the 0 track 0 Cylinder 1 sector of the whole hard disc, which possesses a total of 512 bytes. It comprises of a 446-byte master boot program, a 64-byte partition table record and a 2-byte end tag ("55AA"). Its definitive content is produced by the partition program and it does not have a place with any operating system. Its principal function is to check whether the partition table is correct and reel off the OS boot program in boot partition [9]. It cannot be instantly accessed by the operating system, and information is commonly read through Int 13 or extended Int 13. The DBR (DOS Boot Record) region is situated at track 0, 1 cylinder, and 1 sector. It is the primitive area which can be straightforwardly accessed by the OS (operating system). It consists of the boot program and BPB (BIOS Parameter Block). It is produced by the formatter distinctive partition format of DBR vary. The FAT (File Allocation Table) area file system to a(FAT) file allocation table space and it has the accordance with the disc data blocks. Every item consumes 1.5 bytes in FAT12, each item occupies 2 bytes in FAT16, and every item possesses 4 bytes in FAT32. In this way, it is not too hard to determine the length or range of the FAT when the partition volume or size is known.