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forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 7th, 2016, 12:19

Dear all friends

I want to make sector by sector clone of a72 GB SCSI hard disk. Obviously I cant do it within windows as windows may alter source /target disks.
my normal choice is DOS and dos based cloning tools. Unfortunately these tools have become obsolete and developer do not support them anymore.
Other alternate will be Linux , but I am strictly a windows guy and not much proficient using Linux.
can someone pls. suggest any alternate.
Thank you

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 7th, 2016, 13:40

If you need these drives cloned for forensically sound copies, you are best to seek the services of someone who already knows how to do it.

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 8th, 2016, 1:55

Use AccessData FTK imager!

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 8th, 2016, 3:15

Hi all
Thanks for the suggestions.
FTK imager is good tool ,but it can only Image ,I think it does not support cloning.

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 8th, 2016, 5:29

OSForensics....

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 8th, 2016, 7:34

You fan use SCSI write blocker to connect hdd to PC. And any software for imaging/clone.

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 9th, 2016, 2:15

hi Kum
Yes write blocker is good solution ,but scsi interface is too old and such cases come one in 1-2 years. So dead investment is not justified .
Besides you can do his job using proper softwares too.
Here I have completed task , I have used DOS based tools.
I have hdd duplicator licensed version too (last official build) ,but it is not updated in years and some mebera re skeptical for it.
I have cloned scsi to SATA first ( Redced size of 1TB target SATA to 72 GB first)
Then cloned from SATA to scsi again.

I have checked SHA1 using OS forensic of all 3 drives which is precisely same so all 3 disks are digitally identical.
thanks all for the help

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 10th, 2016, 7:20

I think Barts SCSITOOL may work. Not sure if it's avaliable anymore..

http://academy.delmar.edu/Courses/ITSY2 ... otDisk.htm

Re: forensic cloning of SCSI disks

December 10th, 2016, 10:53

:D :D :D :D :D Thanks Guru :D :D :D :D

SCSITOOL will definitely help me in future cloning .
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