Add them up and your looking at a “40G” drive. Partitions on an HFS are called “slices.” You can see in bold that this drive has a 34.6G slice listed under the number 9 and a 2.6G under line 10. You won’t necessarily know which is which, so you need to query them to see their size, which will give you a hint.ģ. The other two are either the forensic Mac’s OS or the Target drive. A list containing at least three drives will appear: This will list all drives that are seen by the system.
Turn on the acquiring Mac (with the disk arbitration daemon disabled)Ģ. The computer will eventually display the firewire logo on the screen and is then ready for TDM.ġ.
How to get mac out of target disk mode password#
Assuming that no password was needed, hold down the “T” key and turn the suspect’s computer back on. (the initial startup bong and two more after you hold down those four keys).Ĥ. Continue to hold down these four keys until it has 'bonged' a total of three times To zap the PRAM, start up the computer and as soon as you hear the startup 'bong', hold down these four keys: modify the memory by adding or removing chips and zapping the PRAM. remove the drive and do a direct acquisitionī. You cannot do a simple TDM acquisition if a password is required. If the computer does ask for a password, then turn it off. If the suspect’s computer does not ask for a password, then turn it off. Hold down the “Option” key on the suspect’s computer and turn it on.ģ. Without turning anything on, connect the forensic Mac to the suspect’s computer using a firewire cable.Ģ. To find out go to:Īpple menu > About This Mac > More info > ATAġ. Note the sizes of all drives on your forensic Mac, if you don't already know. Having a unique firewire target drive size will help you identify it later, as you will see below. Many new Macs are shipping with 250GB drives. This process relies on being able to identify which drive is the suspect's drive by knowing its size. Prepare a clean firewire drive format is as HFS+ using Mac Disk Utility name the volume “Target”. Alternatively use a FireWire write blocker
Make sure to disable the disk arbitration daemon on the machine where you will do the acquisition.
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