The steps for drive acquisition in RAW format using dc3dd are as follows:
- Open Windows Command Prompt, change directory (you can use cd command to do it) to the one with dc3dd.exe, and type the following command:
dc3dd.exe if=\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE2 of=X:\147-2017.dd hash=sha256log=X:\147-2017.log
- Press Enter and the acquisition process will start.
Of course, your command will be a bit different, so let's find out what each part of it means:
- if - stands for input file. Originally, dd was a Linux utility, and in case you didn't know, everything is a file in Linux. As you can see in our command, we put the physical drive 2 here (this is the drive we wanted to image, but in your case it may be another drive, depending on the ...