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About Agency Investigations
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Hard drives forensic examiners tackle may be as little as 20
gigabytes, or some newer drives are 250 gigabytes, even up to
750 gigabytes.
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Computer forensic examiners, using special computer forensic
software, first acquire an image of the target media, then do an
analysis.
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A lot of the evidence you seek will not be visible to
the untrained eye. You won t find it in a Word document
by using Windows Explorer, or by starting a program from
a shortcut on the desktop.
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Hard drives forensic examiners tackle may be 100
gigabytes, and some newer drives coming out are 500
gigabytes, even 750 gigabytes. To give you an idea
of how much data a hard drive could hold:
- One gigabyte of information equals 6 million pages of
doubles-spaced typed text
- 12 gigabytes of information equals 1,200 cases of laser
printer paper.
Looking from smaller to larger digital measurements:
- 1 byte is a single character (number, letter, punctuation
mark, etc.)
- 1 kilobyte is a paragraph
- 1 megabyte is a small paperback novel
- 100 megabytes is three feet of shelved books
- 1 gigabyte is more than 60 feet of shelved books
- 100 gigabytes is a university library!
In all that space on a hard drive, there must be
evidence somewhere!!!
For more
information on how Agency Investigations Computer
Forensics Division can help you in your matter, please feel free to contact us through
our contact form or by calling
888-WE-UNCOVER
(888) 938-6268
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