I have a hard drive from a surveillence system. Encase sees it "unused disk area", and windows says it is a dynamic disk and asks if I want to initialize disk it.
And because it is connected to with a write blocker windows cant initialize it. My question Why does Encase sees it as an unused disk area. Is it beacuse the file system might be different from FAT/NTFS. Or could it be caused by disk's being a dynamic one and not a basic disc?
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Hi
Have you looked at it with the excellent AccessData Imager?
Might give you a clue as to what the problem is! ?
Encase generally reports a drive as having unused disk area if the drive is formatted with a file system it does not recognize. For the record Encase does support NTFS dynamic disks.
Many CCTV systems use a proprietary file system which is possibly the case with yours. It may be of help to have some details of the system that the drive has been removed from.
Regards
Many CCTV systems use a proprietary file system which is possibly the case with yours.
The file system is a problem, however one of the bigger problems you will encounter with a CCTV system, if you can even read the disk, is that the video files can only be played with the CCTV unit. Each file is typically a compilation of several cameras. Even if you have something like
Thank you to you all bithead, dc1743, glosstevec. That was very informative.