With the help of new computer forensic tools you are provided with an opportunity to recover more data in case of corrupted drives.

Tools are created to harvest images from disks even though they were deleted from the file system. Such tools are able to recover different files such as World documents.

According to a conducted research, techniques used to cull images are able to find even text files. Actually, such an opportunity can attract businesses as they will be able to salvage data that may be dispersed or fragmented across a corrupted drive.

Fragmented chunks will be examined by the text tool as they can be distributed across a disk. Then the tool will analyze the content of chunks in order to understand which one is able to go together.

The tool involves a recovery method such as SmartCarving. Actually, it was discovered at NYU and was offered by DigtalAssembly.

SmartCarving is able to reclaim 10% to 15% of digital images compared to forensic tools. As a matter of fact, it draws data blocks together from a single image that are allotted on a drive in a consecutive way. Then it links them to other groups of data in order they could blend using criteria like dimensions of the image as well as pixel density. Only with the help of algorithms the actual sorting is done.

At present the technique is adapted to other file formats like .doc files. It recognizes the content in file fragments and basing on syntactical similarities it starts to classify.