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One of the tricks of the trade is to put your drive in a freezer for
long enough to get it really cold.  Then connect it to your "capture"
computer and get a dd image as fast as you can:

dd if=/dev/hdc of=/path/to/lots/of/empty/space/dd-image conv=noerror,sync

Very often the dd will finish before the drive comes up to temp and fails.

Then mount the dd-image as a loopback device "mount -o lo dd-image"
and copy off what you want.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century


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