Imaging and Recovery Guides

Overviews

Whether you are creating forensic disk images, mounting physical media to inspect and analyze digital materials, or transferring files, BitCurator supports multiple acquisition scenarios through seven open-source disk imaging tools.

• Brasero: A GNOME application to burn CDs and DVDs, and create 1:1 copies of CDs and DVDs.
• cdrdao: An application to record audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents ( toc-file )
• dcfldd: An enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security, including hashing on-the-fly and split outputs.
• ddrescue: A data recovery tool with advanced features to assist in rescue of good data from devices with read errors.
• dumpfloppy: A tool to read floppy disks in arbitrary formats supported by the PC floppy controller, and work with the resulting image files.
• ewfacquire: A utility to acquire media data from a source and store it in EWF format (Expert Witness Compression Format).
• Guymager: A GUI tool to create raw and EWF-packaged images from devices.

Guides

• Safely Mount Devices
• Imaging with Guymager

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