{"id":1376,"date":"2024-10-06T14:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T20:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallingstuff.net\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:52:46","slug":"tales-of-ebay-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/06\/tales-of-ebay-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of eBay – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Continuing from Part 2<\/a>, I cringe and recover the next drive in the stack, against just looking to recover files from the drive… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yep, more stuff left behind …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It looks like there was a lot … <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… a full hard drive worth …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was a hard drive that definitely came from a Dell computer, judging by the “Dell” folder that was full of drivers. Plus it was Windows 10, and had at least 1 feature update – OR was upgraded from Windows 7 as shown by the $Windows.bt folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Single user, name redacted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some music left behind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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but a whole mess of family pictures left behind, also redacted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was one of the later drives that I actually ran across and it looks like it was from the family laptop that only got turned on once in a while. There were no document or anything else major of note, and I skipped applying any sort of Forensics against it because at this point – I was just happy to see a machine that looked at least part way clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 down, 4 to go. Onward to .. something… Tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from Part 2, I cringe and recover the next drive in the stack, against just looking to recover files from the drive… This was a hard drive that definitely came from a Dell computer, judging by the “Dell” folder that was full of drivers. Plus it was Windows 10, and had at least 1 … Continue reading Tales of eBay – Part 3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-recovery","category-privacy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallingworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}