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Atola TaskForce

Damaged drive imaging with TaskForce: A drive with a damaged head

A damaged hard drive, especially when it comes to evidence drives, requires a complex imaging approach to avoid the drive’s further deterioration and data loss. TaskForce system enhances your working with damaged evidence drives, minimizing the risk of losing data on the working part of the head stack. Diagnostics and Read more…

By Olga Milishenko, 1 month ago

Atola TaskForce

TaskForce 2020.3 introduces segmented hashing!

By selecting Segmented hashing in the imaging settings, along with an image you get a csv file with hash values for the individual segments of the evidence drive.

By Yulia Samoteykina, 5 months ago

Atola Insight Forensic

Calculating segmented hash of a damaged drive

When you work with a damaged device, and imaging can only be performed in multiple passes due to bad sectors or physically damaged areas or heads, it is impossible to calculate linear hash of the drive. This can become a serious challenge if you need to prove evidence integrity in Read more…

By Yulia Samoteykina, 3 years ago