How to get MFT Record Number from File Name

NTDEV
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Hi All,

Given full path of the file , can we get the MFT File record number of that file in NTFS ? , i know the other way around i,e given MFT record number we can tell which file it belongs to.

any help here is greatly appreciated.

thanks ,
Vijay

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GetFileInformationByHandle will give you the file ID if that’s what you’re
asking.

-scott

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Scott Noone
Consulting Associate
OSR Open Systems Resources, Inc.
http://www.osronline.com

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> Hi All,
>
> Given full path of the file , can we get the MFT File record number of
> that file in NTFS ? , i know the other way around i,e given MFT record
> number we can tell which file it belongs to.
>
> any help here is greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks ,
> Vijay
>

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scott ,

thanks for quicky reply, i want to know the MFT record number for the file,
suppose the MFT record number for the file c:\a.txt could be 1000.
in the NTFS the MFT record number and the and the nFileIndexLow filed of BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION Structure is seems to be same. so i got my what i wanted , but is this guaranteed to be always true ?

regards,
Vijay