Question

A Security administrator is investigating an incident involving suspicious word processing documents on an employee's computer which was found powered off in the employee's office which of the following tools is best for extracting. Partial word processing document allocating disk space?

1. MEMPdump

2. Format

3. Dd

4. ?

Answer 1

Memdump will be best tool for extracting the data from the disk and even we can use alternatives like disk

Run SFC Scan to Fix Damaged HDD

If some of your Windows features are not working or are crashing, you must use the SFC (System File Check) to scan the entire Windows and restore your lost files and data.

Go through the procedure step-by-step to fix your damaged hard disk drive:

Step 1: Open the Start Menu, type “CMD” in the search bar, and click on the application.

Step 2: if you are operating Windows 8, 10, or 8.1, firstly, you should run the DISM (Deployment image servicing and management) tool before operating the System File Checker. In this Windows, you have type a specific command to access the SFC. Some time will be taken to complete the command operation.

Step 3: For other Windows users, open the command prompt, and type “SFC/scannow” command, then hit the Enter button.

Image: system-scan

This particular command will scan your entire system files, and remove the corrupted files by creating a cached copy of the files.

Step 4: When the entire scanning process is complete, you might receive a notification that “Windows resource protection did not find any type of integrity violations,” or “Windows Resource Protection can’t perform the requested operation.

Method 3: Run CHKDSK to Fix the Corrupted Hard Disk Drive

CHKDSK is an in-built feature in Windows, which is mainly used to check the file system if the hard drive. Mostly, it is utilized to fix and restore data from a corrupted hard drive. However, there are limited chances to recover data from a corrupted hard drive by using a CHKDSK.