Disk Digger

Visualize file system structures

Disk Digger

Runtime's Disk Digger lets you inspect and navigate any file system or on-disk structure. It displays details in an Internet Explorer window. Views are driven by scripts and an integrated script interpreter. The customizable scripts determine what and how information is displayed. The script language is Pascal, so everybody with knowledge of a higher programming language will be able to modify or create new scripts.

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Only available as part of certain Bundles

Version: V1.02, 2012

Updates: Free lifetime updates for licensed users

System Requirements: 4 GB RAM, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 32 or 64 bit, Internet Explorer 5+

Highlights

  • Visualize on-disk data and file system structures

  • Navigate any file system like a web page

  • Script-driven and fully customizable

  • Sample scripts show you the file system structures up to the point where you can save files.

  • Print your findings on paper.

  • Script language Pascal.

  • Data structures are displayed in Internet Explorer windows.

  • Safe, read-only design

  • Run from a WinPE Boot Medium or a Runtime Live CD

  • Free lifetime updates with purchase

  • Over 20 scripts with support for NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS

  • Powerful debugger

Over 20 Scripts

This version of Disk Digger comes with over 20 ready-to-use scripts for the following file systems:

  • NTFS

  • FAT12, FAT16, FAT32

  • EXT2, EXT3, EXT4

  • XFS

The scripts show all relevant data structures, such as partition tables, boot records, and file system-specific structures. The sophistication of those script goes to the point of you being able to retrieve individual files from the supported file systems. Disk Digger includes all the script's source codes. The script editor allows you to make changes to your code and test it immediately quickly.

Write Your Own Data Recovery Software

At Runtime Software, we use Disk Digger to reverse-engineer file systems and program new features for our data recovery software. You can employ Disk Digger for research or forensic investigations when exploring unknown hard drives. 

Disk Digger

Disk Digger: MFT entry View of sector 7088128 on HD128

The provided Disk Digger scripts show you how to extract files programmatically from NTFS, FAT, EXT, and XFS. You can use these scripts as a blueprint for customized data recoveries or forensic investigations.

With advanced programming skills, you can write additional scripts for other file systems or container structures such as backup files, virtualization volumes, encrypted volumes, or surveillance disks. A rich set of built-in commands lets you access and process disks and images files. You could even develop your own data recovery software based on those scripts.

If a standard recovery software, such as GetDataBack, is not sufficient to accomplish your objective, Disk Digger is the perfect tool.

You can create report scripts for data recovery or forensic purposes that no other software offers.

Internal Working

Disk Digger consists of two distinct functions,

  • a script interpreter for retrieving and formatting the desired information from the inspected disk or image, and  

  • an Internet Explorer instance for rendering the script's output to the screen.

The Explorer address bar tells the program the drive, sector, and View to be displayed. For example, the address

http://local/mft/HD128:/7088128

tells Disk Digger to display the content of sector 7088128 on the first physical drive (HD128:) using the script mft.src.

The script editor contains a powerful debugger. You can trace through your script, inspect its flow and variables.

Scripts usually contain many links allowing the user to navigate through the file system as she would navigate a Web site.

The usage of Internet Explorer enables you to print your windows effortlessly. You can also save the current View or all visited Views into HTML documents. This facilitates documentation of, for example, forensic jobs.

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