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RoccoR5955

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7. I don't know that, but

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 11:38 AM

Apr 2013

There is a piece of software called "Disk Investigator," which will allow you to do a sector by sector read of the hard drive.
It is a very painstaking task to find data, if you don't know EXACTLY what you are looking for. You can page through the millions, even billions of bytes on the HDD to see the data, but it will take a LONG time.
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html
There's a link in case you are curious.
I do not know the method that such a software company can use, but they may replace the data with zeros and ones, if they truly seek to remove all traces of the data.

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Anyone know a computer forensics person to asks if someone wipes important info. off the internet [View all] midnight Apr 2013 OP

Need...more...input... TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #1

I need to recover the search history of a work computer... I have been told it is wiped clean midnight Apr 2013 #3

Read up on the index.dat file TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #5

Thanks for the two links... midnight Apr 2013 #6

From the limited amount of information you give RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #2

Do you know the name of a software that could make available a search history on a particular midnight Apr 2013 #4

I don't know that, but RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #7

I only know the a specific time period... Would that cut down on the time? Thank you for your midnight Apr 2013 #8

Not at all RoccoR5955 Apr 2013 #9