

We now had access to the system but no footage could be viewed, the system simply detailed each of the drives as empty. The correct username and password was then hacked from a file located in the 20GB partition at the beginning of one of the drives. The system was security locked and neither the provided password nor the default would provide access.

9000 bad sectors from 1.9 billion, both clones were considered more than acceptable for the purposes of CCTV image recovery.Įxamination of the drives showed each had an EXT3 partition of around 20GB and a larger XFS partition occupying the rest of the drive.īoth drives were returned to the CCTV system and powered on. (What is media degradation ? Go here: )Įach drive was cloned on to another 2TB WD drive, one a perfect clone the other with approx. We pick up the story from where we were first contacted by the solicitor.Ĭontact from the solicitor regarding the CCTV system, Cleveland Police were unable to recover anything and were unable to get through the password protection.ĬCTV system arrived with us containing 2 x 2TB Western Digital hard drives, this system was a Samsung SRD-1670DĮach internal hard drive was tested with each displaying symptoms of media degradation, one quite badly degraded. The system had been with Cleveland police for several months, who during that time had been unable to recover any footage. Read more here.As part of a computer forensics legal case, Data Clinic were recently asked by a solicitor to attempt to recover the footage from a CCTV system.

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