I am attempting to image a hard disk drive taken from Samsung laptop. I have a Digital Intelligence Ultrakit with several writeblockers. The hard disk drive has SERIAL ATA listed on in and I believe for this type of drive I should the FireWire 800 + USB 2.0 SCSI Bridge. I'm not sure what cables I need to connect the drive and writeblocker and also how to get the PC to read the drive. I've attempted to connect them already but the SCSI Detect LED is not reading the disk drive. Can anyone walk me through this process? ?
Depending on what is in your kit you should be using the T35e or T35es Forensic SATA/IDE Bridge. If your forensic bridge indicates SCSI you are using the wrong one (T4e).
You can use the USB 2.0, the Firewire 400 or either of the Firewire 800 interfaces to connect to your exam machine (the T35es also has an eSATA interface). You will use the SATA and DC Out interfaces to connect to the subject drive.
Once you have everything attached power on the device.
Thank you so much for the quick response, I have located the eSATA Forensic bridge, however the cable that fits the hard disk drive does not fit into the eSATA forensic bridge, I can only get it to successfully connect to FireWire 800 + USB 2.0 SCSI Bridge.
You will connect the drive being write blocked with the appropriate cable IE SATA or IDE. You need a SATA data cable along with SATA Power cable to connect to the Write Block.
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Are you attempting this for practice or an actual case?
Edit Sounds like you might be trying to connect an external hard drive using the wrong Write block. If the internal drive is SATA but it only has USB or Firewire connections you need a USB or firewire write block unless you open up the case. Post a picture of the drive you are trying to image.
The eSATA interface connects to your exam machine not the subject drive.
Here is the drive I am attempting to image, and this is for my masters project.
Here is the drive I am attempting to image, and this is for my masters project.
What was your degree in?
I would hope somebody doing their masters would at least be able to identify a SATA cable.
Thanks.
Sprint does not seem to like your image link.
Sorry let me try again