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Save Your Data From a Dying Drive with Linux:

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GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

• Ddrescue

GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors.

• Recover a data disk with ddrescue

Basic Syntax

ddrescue /dev/disk /mnt/tuna/partimg/mydisk.img logfile
Be sure to write the image to a separate disk/storage location.

Mount the Image

mount -t loop -o ro mydisk.img /somewhere

• dc3dd | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net

• Dc3dd – Forensics Wiki

Comparison to GNU dd

The following features are available in dc3dd that are not found in GNU dd:

• On the fly hashing with multiple algorithms (MD5, SHA–1, SHA–256, and SHA–512) with variable sized piecewise hashing
• Able to write errors directly to a file
• Combined error log. Groups errors together (e.g. Had 1,023 ‘Input/ouput errors’ between blocks 17–233’ )
• Pattern wiping. Wipe output files with a single hex digit or a text pattern
• Verify mode
• Progress reports. See the progress of the operation while it’s running
• Split output. Able to split output files into fixed size chunks

The following changes to GNU dd’s behavior were made:

• On a partial read, the whole block is wiped with zeros. This allows for repeatable reads/hashes of a drive with errors.

• A Geek’s Guide to Digital Forensics – YouTube

“A Geek’s Guide to Digital Forensics, or How i Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hex Editor”
Presented by Andrew Hoog.

Boot a Failing System

• SystemRescueCd

Description: SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of linux software such as system tools (parted, partimage, fstools, …) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).

• Tuxboot – About

Tuxboot helps you to create a bootable Live USB drive for Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. It is modified from UNetbootin and runs on both MS Windows and GNU/Linux. You can choose to download the latest version of Clonezilla live, DRBL live, or GParted live ISO/zip file then create the live USB.

Features:

• Support Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. Tuxboot uses the syslinux in the ISO/zip file to make your USB drive bootable, so it is compatible with the same version of syslinux boot menu in the ISO/zip file.
• Auto find the latest version.
• Download an ISO file and build bootable USB flash drive on the fly.

• OSFClone – Open source utility to create and clone forensic disk images

OSFClone is a free, self-booting solution which enables you to create or clone exact raw disk images quickly and independent of the installed operating system. In addition to raw disk images, OSFClone also supports imaging drives to the open Advance Forensics Format (AFF).

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• HoneyDrive honeypot bundle distro

HoneyDrive is a virtual appliance (OVA) with Xubuntu Desktop 12.04 32-bit edition installed. It contains various honeypot software packages such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Dionaea malware honeypot, Honeyd low-interaction honeypot, Glastopf web honeypot along with Wordpot, Thug honeyclient and more. Additionally it includes useful pre-configured scripts and utilities to analyze, visualize and process the data it can capture, such as Kippo-Graph, Honeyd-Viz, and much more. Lastly, many other helpful security, forensics and malware related tools are also present in the distribution.

• HoneyDrive – Readme Has the Deets

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