September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
140 pages
3h 31m
English
As a final means to turn up data, the strings from the raw disk image can be extracted and saved to a file. The output will be enormous, but it will allow loose text searches for a particular conversation or other data.
To extract the strings from the disk image, perform the following.
The strings utility
comes integrated with Mac OS X, as it is a standard Unix tool.
Simply issue the following from a terminal window:
$strings rdisk0s2 >filename
Download the Windows version of strings from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439.aspx.
Issue the following command to dump the text strings from the disk
image:
$strings.exe rdisk0s2 >filename
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