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  1. Click on the Oracle Virtual Box shortcut on the Windows desktop screen

  2. Virtual Box will open, click on the BitCurator with the latest version number after it

  3. Wait for the operating system to load. Once you see a screen with a blue background, BitCurator is ready to use.

 

Guymager 

Guymager is an all purpose software tool with a user interface for creating disk images. In general, it is your first choice for imaging hard drives, memory cards, Zip disks, 3.5” floppy disks via USB, and data on optical discs. 

FTKImager

FTK imager is a similar general purpose imaging tool as Guymager but it is our second choice for imaging imaging hard drives, memory cards, Zip disks, 3.5” floppy disks via USB, and CDs/DVDs due to the inability to alter the metadata elements entered when creating an image and it being closed source software. We use FTK Imager mainly when imaging fails with Guymager or when we can’t get the external media to be recognized in BitCurator.

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