full-disclosure - Forensic help?

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Date: Mon Sep 12 16:15:16 2005
From: als at thangorodrim.de (als@...ngorodrim.de)
Subject: Forensic help?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:11:24AM -0400, Red Leg wrote:
> On 9/11/05 8:21 PM, "Paul Schmehl" <pauls@...allas.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Download the knoppix std distro and burn it to a cd.  Use dcfldd for drive
> > imaging and the forensics tools for recovery of erased files and the like.
> > 
> 
> Paul.
> 
> Does dcfldd allow me to mirror the disk in such a manner as to include
> deleted files? I can not swap drives. I need to obtain an image with which I
> can "undelete" files that were conventionally erased.
> 
> Will dcfldd provide such an image?

I haven't used dcfldd, but it seems to be a modified version of the
standard UNIX tool dd. As such it should produce a block level image of
the disk - which includes everything on the disk,  deleted or not.

Regards,
    Alex.
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