Analysis for HFS+ on Windows Platform and its Application in Computer Forensics

Abstract

HFS+ is the main file system of Mac OS. With the popularity of Apple computer, more and more security specialists pay attention to the computer forensics in Mac OS. As computer forensics technology on Windows Platforms is quite mature and can pass the limit of authority, when get the HFS+ disk or mirror from Apple computer, we can achieve data manipulation for further computer forensics through analyzing the file system on Windows platform. This paper proposed an efficient method to analyze HFS+ file system on Windows to build directory structure and get the unallocated space. This work is the important beginning of computer forensics in Mac OS.