Slack Space
E-Discovery
A form of residual data, slack space is the amount of on-disk file space from the end of the logical record information to the end of the physical disk record. Slack space can contain information soft-deleted from the record, information from prior records stored at the same physical location as current records, metadata fragments and other information useful for forensic analysis of computer systems.
Remnant data from deleted files still located in clusters on a hard drive.
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Microsoft Windows Server
The unused area outside of the boot sector in sector 0 of a partitioned data storage device.