Re: Digital Evidence Question - What is an effective Windows hard-disk search tool?

colane_at_unity.ncsu.edu
Date: 06/17/03

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    > What I seek is the following:
    >
    > -A tool (peferably freeware) that I can use to acquire
    > and search my hard drive for
    > images/history/general/etc information that I have
    > "deleted".
    >
    > Any suggestions? It goes without saying that any
    > ideas you may have would be appreciated. Thanks!
    >
    > Marcus
    >

    If nobody comes up with a suitable Windows-based tool for you, you can
    disconnect the drive and hook it up as a slave to a *nix machine. From
    there, you can use 'the sleuth kit' to work on the drive.

    http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/desc.php
     From the website:

    "The Sleuth Kit (previously known as TASK) is a collection of UNIX-based
    command line file system forensic tools that allow an investigator to
    examine NTFS, FAT, FFS, EXT2FS, and EXT3FS file systems of a suspect
    computer in a non-intrusive fashion. The tools have a layer-based design
    and can extract data from internal file system structures. Because the
    tools do not rely on the operating system to process the file systems,
    deleted and hidden content is shown."

    NOTE: I've never used this tool, so I cannot speak for it's reliability,
    effectiveness, etc.

    - Christopher Lane - CCNA/BCNE
    - NCSU, Computer Science Undergraduate

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