MASAMUNE Clone

1. ■Protect the important data on which business and operations should be based!
*HDD: hard disk drive.
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(*Cited from the dictionary of the 3rd edition of the Evidence Preservation Guidelines)
Clone Enterprise Edition
MASAMUNE Clone Enterprise Edition is a specialized software developed by Data Salvage
for cloning the information from electronic recording media such as HDDs*.This powerful
software duplicator is designed to advance fast data recovery and preservation of
evidence required by forensic investigations.In MASAMUNE Clone Enterprise Edition, our
company which provided data recovery and forensic investigation functionality to main
Japanese enterprises, municipalities and administrative corporations, could embody
automatic elimination of read errors in electronic recording media and highly accurate
physical data recovery by our proprietary algorithm (patent pending) based on many
years of experience.
Among damaged HDDs processed for data recovery, the most common failure type is
the read errors. If a sector cannot be read as a rule it is marked as bad sector,but that
does not mean it is really a bad sector data from which cannot be recovered.There is a
possibility that such sector can still be read by a data recovery specialist with high
experience. In other words, it is not a bad(unrecoverable)sector but a sector which
contains possibly recoverable read errors. Read errors comprise more than half of all
physical damages.
Can I fix these read errors somehow and read my data?
– Software duplicator MASAMUNE Clone Enterprise Edition can answer this question.
Because software is running from CD, it does not require a special system; a common PC
on-hand can be used for disk copying which reduces work expenses.
Proprietary algorithm based on the experience of Data Salvage, implements physical data
reproduction with small number of errors using such methods as bad sector skip, reverse
reading and thorough read/retry. Additionally, the ability to detect unauthorized data
alteration using hash values* allows using the software as evidence preservation tool in
the cases of national and international lawsuits, incidents, frauds, etc, making it an
effective digital forensic tool to produce electromagnetic evidence.
*Hash values: values produced by applying a hash function (MDA-5, SHA-1, SHA-2 or
other unidirectional function) to the data of arbitrary size. Because of their ability to
produce different hash values from different input data of any size even of 1 bit hash
functions can be used to check the identity of data.
In the more and more complex digital information society, a
reliable tool to protect important data which is the core of an
organization has appeared!
Track down bad sectors (recovery impossible) and process them as
read errors(which can be recovered)!
A common PC on-hand can be used as a duplicator contributing to
work cost reduction!
Reliably supports business information protection by detectig unau-
thorized data alteration using hash values!

2. ■Examples of practical application of the MASAMUNE Clone Enterprise Edition’s features
The software can be used in the following situations.
●Copying contents of the disks of a notebook PC which is hard to dismantle.
・Physical reproduction of data on external HDD without removing internal HDD/SDD from a slim notebook PC.
●Copying contents of the disks of a server PC.
・Image copies of disks from UNIX certified servers and RAID arrays can be created.
※Can create copies of even copy-protected storage devices.
●Copying contents of HDDs from old systems.
・Can support all interfaces and create physical copies of various electronic recording media.
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●Field works with minimal equipment.
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*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.
Combining functionality of the MASAMUNE Clone Recovery Edition and MASAMUNE Clone Forensic Edition,
the software duplicator MASAMUNE Clone Enterprise Edition implements fast and accurate HDD copying
functionality required by business customers.
Linux based software running from CD allows physical reproduction of data on external HDD without
removing internal HDD from PC.
If a disk copy of an old system working in a production line is created in advance, it is safe to restart such system after mainte-
nance or even after production stop.
Because software is running from CD, it does not require a special system; a common PC on-hand can be used for
disk copying.
Depending on combination of hardware and cables, high speed of 42 GB/min (actual measured value)
can be achieved.