configured email and unallocated hard disk space

[Jane Logan]

Will copies of emails sent out through outlook or outlook express sit
in allocated disk space of your hard drive OR unallocated disk space?

Is it possible for web based client emails to be found on allocated
disk space of the hard drive?


What kind of information is stored on unallocated disk space ?

 

[Galen]

In Jane Logan had this to say:

My reply is in the middle of your sent message:

Will copies of emails sent out through outlook or outlook express sit
in allocated disk space of your hard drive OR unallocated disk space?

Maybe for a very short time - longer if they're saved in an outbox or sent
message folder, even longer if they're logged on the network.

Is it possible for web based client emails to be found on allocated
disk space of the hard drive?

More than likely not. Some slim chance that it would be in residual TIF but
most of those pages are dynamic languages such as PHP these days and thus
not completely saved, just presented to the browser and not really saved in
the TIF at all. You can open your TIF and look at .php pages and you'll see
that only some are saved.

What kind of information is stored on unallocated disk space ?

Deleted stuff. Nothing. Random ones and zeros if it has been wiped.

Why do you ask? Did you lose something, are you trying to find something
from someone else, or are you trying to hide something?

If the answer is yes to any of the above you might want to be more specific
so that we may help you if we're able/willing. (Not too many people here are
willing to help you break laws or violate someone's privacy if that's what
you're after.)

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/

"Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its
solution is its own
reward." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Jane Logan]

Hi Galen,

Apparently emails that may have been sent out or viewed through my
machine and then deleted and subsequently reteived from the unallocated
disk space of hard drive.

I never used my outlook or outlook express to configure mails from
anywhere to send or receive on my machine.

I did not send out these mails but cannot explain how this could have
happened. There was someone sharing the PC with me and I am trying to
find out what happened.(fragments of deleted emails where recovered )?

Can mails send out from Out look or Outlook express client on your
machine show up on unallocated disk space? or will it always show up on
allocated disk space.

I need to understand what happened as I am not too IT literate

I am told that when you view a site, your hard drive caches the page
for you to be able to view it, can this make my question clearer?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Will copies of emails sent out through outlook or outlook express sit
in allocated disk space of your hard drive OR unallocated disk space?

Unallocated disk space is space that is not in any partition. No, no E-mails
can be found there, because nothing is stored there.

Whether copies of sent mails are saved at all depends on the settings of
your E-mail client, but if they are saved, they have to be saved in
allocated space. Again, nothing can be saved in unallocated space.

Is it possible for web based client emails to be found on allocated
disk space of the hard drive?

Yes, they could possibly be in temporary internet files, or in the page
file.

What kind of information is stored on unallocated disk space ?

None at all. It's completely inaccessible if it's not allocated.

 

[Pop`]

Will copies of emails sent out through outlook or outlook express sit
in allocated disk space of your hard drive OR unallocated disk space?

Is it possible for web based client emails to be found on allocated
disk space of the hard drive?


What kind of information is stored on unallocated disk space ?

There are various definitions of unallocated space depending on the context.
Here's apparently the one you're talking about:
http://www.forensics-intl.com/def8.html

 

[Pop`]

Unallocated disk space is space that is not in any partition. No, no
E-mails can be found there, because nothing is stored there.

Whether copies of sent mails are saved at all depends on the settings
of your E-mail client, but if they are saved, they have to be saved in
allocated space. Again, nothing can be saved in unallocated space.




Yes, they could possibly be in temporary internet files, or in the
page file.




None at all. It's completely inaccessible if it's not allocated.

You're correct, but ... there are dependencies on what it means based on
contect. Initially I had your take on this and then for grins decided to
check around; here's a different take on it that's new to me but apparently
not to a LOT of other people:
Found on wikipedia:
http://www.forensics-intl.com/def8.html

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You're correct, but ... there are dependencies on what it means based
on contect. Initially I had your take on this and then for grins
decided to check around; here's a different take on it that's new to
me but apparently not to a LOT of other people:
Found on wikipedia:
http://www.forensics-intl.com/def8.html

Interesting, thanks. It's always possible for anyone to use and define a
word in a non-standard way, and of course it's even possible to puiblish
such a non-standard definition.

This site's definition of the term is very much non-standard, as far as I'm
concerned.

 

[Dave B.]

They seem to be using the term unallocated file space as opposed to
unallocated disk space.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

They seem to be using the term unallocated file space as opposed to
unallocated disk space.

It's certainly likely that Jane meant something other than what she said,
but I don't know what it is, and I prefer not to guess (I don't even know
what *you* mean by "unallocated file space").

If I guess and guess wrong, I may just confuse the issue further, so I
prefer to answer the question as it was asked, and let Jane herself clarify
what she meant, if it wasn't what she said.

 

[Dave B.]

I agree completely, personally I can only assume that unallocated file space
is someone's fancy term for free space. Definitely not an industry used
term.