Solution Guide

Ingest 51
How to Perform Ingest Using the Dell Digital
Forensics Solution
Ingest Using SPEKTOR
Register and Clean an External USB Device as a Store Disk
1 Plug the unregistered external USB device in a Collector port on the
ruggedized laptop.
2 Click or tap the device icon when it appears; then click or tap Register the
Device as a Store Disk
→ Yes . Then enter the requested information.
3 From the right-hand menu, select the registered device; then tap or click
Clean/Reformat → Clean .
4 Click OK when the process completes.
Deploy the Store Disk
1 Plug in the store disk to the ruggedized laptop; then tap or click the store disk
device to display the
Store Disk Menu .
2 In the Store Disk Menu , tap or click Deploy .
If you are deploying against a target computer:
a Tap or click Target Computer .
b Remove the storage disk from the ruggedized laptop, and plug it into a
spare USB port on the target computer.
c Follow the same deployment instructions as for capturing a triage image
in "Deploy Triage Tools" on page 33.
d When the boot CD is loaded, the SPEKTOR Imaging Wizard will
walk you through the remainder of the imaging process. Step-by-step
instructions may be found in the
SPEKTOR User Manual . See "Related
Documentation and Resources" on page 16 for more information.
e Shut down the target computer, unplug the store disk, and then return the
store disk to the datacenter for storage.
If you are deploying against a target storage device locally:
a Tap or click Target Storage Device .