EnCE EnCase Computer Forensics: The Official EnCase Certified Examiner Study Guide, 3rd Edition

CD File Systems

When CDs first came out, as with many things, standards were lacking—and history has shown that a lack of standards can limit the growth of an industry or product. Several representatives of the CD industry and Microsoft met at the High Sierra Hotel in Lake Tahoe. The standard they published in 1986 for CD standards was aptly named High Sierra. Two years later in 1988 the International Organization for Standardization met and revised the High Sierra standard, calling it ISO 9660. ISO 9660 allowed for cross-platform capability for CDs between PCs, Unix, and Macintosh computers. Such universality wasn’t without a price, and ISO 9660 CDs had the following limitations at the Level 1 implementation:

• Only uppercase characters (A–Z), ...