How to do it...

After starting your freshly installed digital forensics tool, the first window you see is Welcome. Here we have three main options:

  • Create New Case - this option will create a new case for you
  • Open Recent Case - this option will open the last case you worked on
  • Open Existing Case - this option allows you to choose one of the cases present on your workstation
Figure 4.7. Autopsy Welcome window

As we just installed Autopsy, we don't have any cases, so our choice is the Create New Case option. Now you will see a New Case Information window.

  1. In the first step, Case Info, we have two fields to fill in; the third will be completed ...

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