Unlike conventional forensic
boot disks that use superficial protection techniques, such as mounting drives as read-only, ForensicSoft's SAFE platform employs the company's proprietary SAFE Block software technology to block all disks at the physical level to ensure a forensically sound preview, exploration and capture of the digital evidence.
Make sure you carefully label any wipe
boot disks you create
It does this automatically, so the reboot, data recovery, or file recovery does not require special
boot disks.
Also included is a utility which assists users in creating emergency
boot disks if their computer will not support a bootable CD.
A number of utility programs provide emergency
boot disks, which attempt to repair damage done to your hard disk.
The next step in the sequence consists of booting the target PCs with the DOS
boot disks created in step three, downloading the image file, and writing it to the target PC's hard drive.
Windows 95 promises to change all that but, until then, most people will have to soldier on creating
boot disks, changing memory settings and messing with DOS.
There are several popular utility programs that can create
boot disks automatically: for example, Norton Utilities and PC Tools.
SanXfer migrates existing server
boot disks into the SAN without a reinstall, or waiting for future budget cycles or the next round of server upgrades.
Acronis recognizes the exceptional technology developed by Red Hat and that is why Acronis incorporates a customized version of the Red Hat kernel in our emergency
boot disks," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis.
Eliminating the
boot disks from each server can greatly improve reliability and MTBF (mean time before failure) of each individual server by eliminating the most failure-prone component of the system.
The KBOX 2000 eliminates the need to run from machine to machine with stacks of
boot disks," said Marty Kacin, president and CTO of KACE.
