Using Solo III for USB drive acquisition

Dear Michael,

I suggest you should try this procedure to use Solo III on USB drives.

1.   Use the FW/USB Option of the Solo 3, connecting the unit to a notebook 
through either the FW or USB ports.  Connect the target drive to the Solo 3.

2.      Connect the external hard drive (USB or FW) to the proper connector of 
the notebook.

3.   Boot the notebook from the LinkMASSter CD ( the CD that comes with the 
unit).

4.      Now you can copy either the notebook internal hard drive or the 
external hard drive to the Solo 3 target drive.

 

Regards,

Naavi
www.naavi.org

----- Original Message -----

From:   “Michael Edwards” <medwards@digital-legal.com>

To:       <forensics@lists.securityfocus.com>

Sent:     Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:48 AM

Subject:            Recommendations for hardware for imaging external drives

 

 

> Greetings to the list -

>

> I’m wondering what folks use, or would recommend, for imaging

> external drives in the field. I am currently using a Solo III

> Forensic for imaging drives, and it has been a pleasure so far when

> imaging IDE, SATA and SCSI drives. It does have a few quirks, but

> generally is fast and gets the job done.

>

> However, it doesn’t have any way to deal with external drives

> (USB/FireWire), USB thumb drives, and the like. For my usage, it is

> not always practical or possible to take the hardware back to the

> lab, or disassemble the hardware to get at the underlying drive

connections..

>

> Ideally, I’d like to keep the budget lower, but am interested in what

> the reality is.

>

> Thanks!

>

> --

> Michael Edwards



Naavi
Na.Vijayashankar
www.naavi.org