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This message occurs when trying to process a compressed [[NTFS]] file that is corrupt.  This can occur when a file has been deleted and the clusters have been reallocated to another file.  
 
This message occurs when trying to process a compressed [[NTFS]] file that is corrupt.  This can occur when a file has been deleted and the clusters have been reallocated to another file.  
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# blkls -f ntfs -i raw -a /dev/sde1 > /tmp/allocatedspace.dump
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Error in metadata structure (dinode_lookup: More Update Sequence Entries than MFT size)
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This message can occur when trying to view allocated data on an NTFS filesystem damaged by unplugging a USB drive while it was writing.  This file system is not recognized/fixable by chkdsk either, and needs some reconstruction before chkdsk will work.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 11:59, 7 March 2015

This page contains some error messages that could be encountered when running TSK and Autopsy.


Error extracting file from image (ntfs_uncompress_compunit: Phrase token offset is too large:  1 (max: 0))

This message occurs when trying to process a compressed NTFS file that is corrupt. This can occur when a file has been deleted and the clusters have been reallocated to another file.


# blkls -f ntfs -i raw -a /dev/sde1 > /tmp/allocatedspace.dump
Error in metadata structure (dinode_lookup: More Update Sequence Entries than MFT size)

This message can occur when trying to view allocated data on an NTFS filesystem damaged by unplugging a USB drive while it was writing. This file system is not recognized/fixable by chkdsk either, and needs some reconstruction before chkdsk will work.