Re: Imaging Win95 volumes with dd.exe ?

From: Albert Bendicho (bendiat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 17:22:23 PDT

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    If you can reboot the machine, boot it on linux using a live CD (linux
    BBC http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ is very handy on this, and it fits on a
    Business Card CD!). 
    If you can't then could you explain with more detail what errors do you
    get?
    
    	HTH,
    	Albert Bendicho
    
    On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:29, Dan Rathbun wrote:
    > Greetings,
    > 
    > I'm trying to create an image of a Windows 95 machine
    > using dd.exe and netcat. I can successfully accomplish
    > this feat on a Win2k machine by using the following syntax:
    > 
    > Target Win2k Machine:
    > dd.exe if:\\.\C: bs=512 | nc.exe 1.b.c.d 4000
    > 
    > Linux Analysis Machine:
    > nc -l -p 4000 | dd of=/evidence.img bs=512 conv=noerror
    > 
    > This works quite nicely, and I have imminent need to do
    > the same on two Windows 95 machines. When I try to
    > accomplish this I get a variety of errors depending on
    > whose dd.exe I try to use.
    > 
    > In a google newsgroup discussion I read that "Windows
    > 9x does not support opening local volumes line NT-XP does".
    > 
    > If this is true than I guess my question is, how do I
    > best accomplish the task of imaging this drive across
    > the wire to my Linux workstation, with little or no budget?
    > 
    > This can't be the first time that a Criminal chose to
    > use Windows 95, right?
    > 
    > Thanks in advance for your feedback!
    > 
    > -Dan Rathbun
    > 
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