1. Data Salvage is a company with over 10 years of experience in data restoration that has developed strong technological capabilities to restore both logical and physical damage to hard disks. 2. After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, Data Salvage provided free data restoration services and established consultation offices in the disaster area to fulfill their social responsibility. 3. Data Salvage developed software called MASAMUNE to quickly duplicate data from over 1,000 damaged hard disks after the earthquake. MASAMUNE has since become a powerful tool for data recovery and digital forensics.

1. This is Clone!
Data Salvage, as a company specializing in data restoration and having more
than 10 years of history and experience in this area, we achieved stable devel-
opment and can pride ourselves in high technological strength which allows
us to cope not only with logical errors but also perfectly deal in our lab with
physical errors in hard disks and reliably save precious data in many cases.
After the Great East Japan earthquake of 03/11/2011, our department
located in Sendai city, where our business was established and also which
suffered from the earthquake, performed restoration of highly important
common data free of charge at the day of the disaster. This deed was born
from the vision naturally derived from our social responsibility as data restor-
ing business. Through continuous restoration of common data by installation
of consultation office and work base at the place of the disaster, we stronger
than before perceived the sociality of data restoring business and confirmed
the necessity of technological development and persistent inquisitive spirit in
order to accomplish our social responsibility.
The great strength we achieved in data restoration through working with the
unprecedented number of more than 1000 hard disks after the earthquake is
from the software duplicator, which we were developing at that time. To save
affected data it was necessary to duplicate information from damaged hard
disks to working recording media and restore the data that could be restored
as soon as possible.
The need in software duplicator equipped with unprecedentedly fast and
advanced technology became apparent.
Environment surrounding current digital storage has made a drastic
change,incomparable to the times when we entered the data recovery
business.All kinds of digital storage, such as NAS, RAID, servers, hard disks,
etc., contain valuable data which are lifelines of businesses.
This is especially right in the case of cloud storage used to improve the infor-
mation security and reduce costs when such conditions arise that large
amount of data can be stored on one server; this greatly increases the risk of
data damage in case of system troubles.
In these conditions, software duplicator, which we named MASAMUNE,
became a major force in damaged data recovery, and by devoting ourselves to
functional and operability enhancement of our product, we are fully confident
that due to information society and ICT technologies development, it has
become the powerful solution to protect the increasingly important data for
organizations, societies and individual users.
This tool can be used not only for data recovery, but also as a digital forensic
tool for preservation of electromagnetic evidence in lawsuits, incidents, fraud,
etc.
We continue to hope that our MASAMUNE will play an important role in
maintaining the assets of the information society.
Software Duplicator Supporting Business Information
Protection According To BCP (Business Continuity Plan).

2. ■Main features of MASAMUNE Clone
*HDD: hard disk drive.
●MASAMUNE Clone is a Linux based software running from CD.
It can reproduce data on external HDD without removing internal HDD from PC.
●MASAMUNE Clone reduces the number of read errors using our proprietary algorithm (patent pending).
Proprietary MASAMUNE algorithm based on the experience of Data Salvage, implements physical data reproduction
with small number of errors using such methods as thorough read/retry, bad sector skipping, reverse reading, etc.
■MASAMUNE Clone Product Lineup
MASAMUNE(engine)
*Please read the user manual before using MASAMUNE Clone software.
*Depending on media condition, creation of Clone may be impossible.
*Specifications and design of MASAMUNE products may be modified for improvement without prior notice.
Enterprise Edition
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Forensic Edition
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Recovery Edition
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MASAMUNE Clone
Main Features
■Recommended System
*USB port is necessary for USB dongle based license key.
Algorithm Selection
Speed
Image File Output
Log Output
HASH Output
Authorization Dongle
Recovery Edition Forensic Edition Enterprise Edition
PC DOS/V compatible or Intel Mac (Macintosh with Intel CPU on board) PC capable of running software from CD-ROM
CPU
Memory
Graphic card
Other
(Even if the below conditions are met software may not work due to specific hardware configurations)
Intel Pentium / Celeron, AMD Athlon / Duron or compatible CPU with clock frequency from 1 GHz.
From 512MB
XGA (1024x768) or better
USB port, CD-ROM or DVD drive, keyboard
MASAMUNE Clone is a specialized software developed by Data Salvage for cloning (duplicating) the information from
electronic recording media such as HDDs*. This software duplicator is designed to advance fast data recovery and
preservation of evidence required by forensic investigations.
MASAMUNE Clone product lineup consists from three products: data recovery software MASAMUNE Clone Recov-
ery edition, MASAMUNE Clone Forensic Edition software with functions for digital forensic, and MASAMUNE
Clone Enterprise Edition which contains both data recovery and forensic functions necessary for BCP activities of
businesses. We also have customizable and functional extension products.
*Our proprietary algorithm is submitted for international patent application not only for software duplication but in much more
wider area.