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Volume label + serial history: decode EMDMgmt from a Windows SOFTWARE hive.
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\EMDMgmt is the ReadyBoost device cache.
Windows evaluated every volume it saw for ReadyBoost and left one subkey per volume,
named <device-prefix>__<VolumeLabel>_<VolumeSerialNumber> (the serial in decimal).
It is a durable record of a removable volume’s label and 4-byte volume serial — the
same serial a Shell Link’s DriveSerialNumber stores — so it ties a .lnk file-access
to a named volume even after the device is gone. This reader emits those (label, volume_serial) facts.
Structs§
- EmdVolume
- One cached volume: its label and 4-byte volume serial number.
Functions§
- parse_
emdmgmt - Parse
EMDMgmtvolume records from an already-openedSOFTWAREhive. Total over a valid hive: a subkey whose name has no trailing_<decimal>serial is skipped, never panicked on.fileis recorded as each record’sProvenancefile.