Magnet Acquire is a free utility designed to create forensic images of hard drives, memory cards, phones, and tablets. It can be downloaded from the Customer Portal on the Magnet Forensics website. Also, it comes with AXIOM and internet Evidence Finder.
- Once started, Magnet Acquire looks for connected devices and displays their list in the window.
A list of devices displayed in the Magnet Acquire
- Click on the
NEXT
button. The next window will prompt you to select the type of extraction. SelectFull
if the connected Android device is rooted. Otherwise, selectQuick
.
Select the type of extraction
- Click on the
NEXT
button. If necessary, fill in theEvidence folder name
,Folder destination
,Image name
,Examiner
, andEvidence number
fields.
The create evidence folder window
- Click on the
ACQUIRE
button. The process of data extraction from the device will...