EnCase 6.8 is NOT Vista compatible. EnCase won't be until 6.11 or 6.12, so they say.
Well there is full compatibility and there is "you can do certain stuff" under Vista.
EnCase runs under Vista. I use it often.
But you have to run it AS admin, because it writes to Program files ( as no-no for Vista) PDE, VFS and FBSE modules also do not run under Vista.
Drag-and-drop is also an issue. if you disable UAC your vista life become much easier. To offically support Vista you have to take care of all of these things and many more.
EnCase 6.8 is NOT Vista compatible. EnCase won't be until 6.11 or 6.12, so they say.
I've run my past few cases successfully on Vista Business with EnCase 5.05k with the Fastbloc SE module, and have come across no issues as yet.
EnCase 6.8 is NOT Vista compatible. EnCase won't be until 6.11 or 6.12, so they say.
I've run my past few cases successfully on Vista Business with EnCase 5.05k with the Fastbloc SE module, and have come across no issues as yet.
The law may be different in the UK than in the US, however, in the US the admissibility of an Encase acquisition when installed on a Vista (or any unsupported OS) could easily be successfully challenged in both civil and criminal court. I speak from professional experience not simply opinion.
Version 6.11 is scheduled to have Vista support but, IMHO, there are sufficient issues with Encase 6 that I would wait for a few more minor releases beyond .11 before basing an evidence acquisition on Encase and Vista.
If you don't ever have to worry about admitting your acquisition as evidence, I wouldn't worry about it (though there are other reasons not to like Vista).
If you need a 64-bit OS, XP and Windows 2003 are supported and, in my experience, both are more efficient than the current release of Vista. If the problem is finding the appropriate "F6" drivers for either of these two (since most retail 64-bit PC systems only support Vista), various vendors (such as Intel), provide the F6 drivers in a downloadable form. I have used nLite to slipstream these drivers to the OS install disk for both XP 64-bit and Windows Server 2003 64-bit with good success.