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Is it possible to determine when a NTFS partition was created?

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Mar 15, 20267010 views
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We have a client where it would be very useful to determine WHEN a drive was a initialized or an NTFS partition created. Is there a timestamp value somewhere? If anyone could shed any advice it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -slashp

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Yes. You can even do it over a LAN. The CIFS transaction is and the information level is . The native Windows NT API function for querying a volume's creation time is , which yields a data structure (almost identical to the CIFS one, note) when aske…

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