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We will be capturing the volatile memory of the PC or else the RAM. On the top left of FTK Imager window, we click on the “ File” option and select to capture memory option. The FTK Imager screen will look as shown on the screen below. In this step, we will run the FTK Imager right from our USB drive which is mounted on the PC we will be acquiring volatile memory from. Step 2: Running FTK Imager exe from USB drive

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You can check the guide on how to solve this error.Īfter the exe file is able to run successfully from the USB drive, we can now move to the second section of our guide where we will be acquiring volatile from a PC using FTK Imager. While I tried to run FTK Imager off the USB drive and I ran into an error which you may also encounter where FTK Imager requires you to run the setup as administrator. The lite version contains the only necessary files to run FTK Imager tool from the USB drive.

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In this step we download FTK Imager lite version from their official website and extract the downloaded zip file on our USB drive. Steps to create forensic image using FTK Imager Step 1: Download and extract FTK Imager lite version on USB drive In this guide we will be doing live data acquisition.

It is most frequently used in live data acquisition.

Using the portable version of FTK Imager by running it directly from USB.

(When acquiring evidence using this type of setup, make sure to use write blocker in order to prevent evidence data from being modified).

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Investigator can install FTK Imager on his/her laptop and mount the source disk to his laptop.With that let’s jump right into our guide.įTK Imager has two ways in which you can use to extract forensic image Be able to follow this guide to the end.Have knowledge of using windows operating system.Have PC running on windows operating system with at least 4GB of RAM.We will be running FTK Imager from an external drive as it is recommended to avoid interfering with the evidence. We will just be extracting volatile memory from the PC so no need to worry about getting a license first. This is a windows commercial forensic imaging software used by law enforcement around the world. In this guide we will be using FTK Imager tool to acquire a forensic image from a PC.įTK Imager in full stands for Forensic Toolkit Imager.

FTK Imager is a popular tool used by professionals to acquire digital evidence. Digital forensic is a field within forensic science which deals with acquiring, identifying, processing and reporting of evidences collected in the various known digital formats. In this guide we will use FTK Imager which is a digital forensic tool to acquire disk image.

Step 8: Filling in the evidence item information.

Step 7: Setting the acquired image destination and image file type.

Step 6: Selecting the disk to acquire image.

Step 5: Running FTK Imager for forensic image acquisition.

Step 4: Setting other files to include and the file destination.

Step 2: Running FTK Imager exe from USB drive.

Step 1: Download and extract FTK Imager lite version on USB drive.

Steps to create forensic image using FTK Imager.