Saturday 4 May 2013

Recover Deleted FIles by using Forensic tools : FOREMOST & DCFLDD


Foremost
Foremost is a Linux based program data for recovering deleted files . The program uses a configuration file to specify headers and footers to search for. Intended to be run on disk images, foremost can search through most any kind of data without worrying about the format.

DCFLDD

Dcfldd is a tool designed to acquire images. Dcfldd was designed to be an open sources computer forensic tool that would improve some of the shortcomings of the dd application. When the hashwindows=0 option is specified, the dcfldd will calculate the md5sum while the data is being copied, this options eliminate the extra step of having to use md5sum afterward to calculate the md5sum of the bitstream copy. This can save a lot of time as hashing the drive with md5sum can take a while. Another feature of the dcfldd command is the status bar, this is an important feature as it indicates how long the process it’s going to take.

To know more about these tools with screenshots , 
 click here to download the docs.

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