{"id":8066,"date":"2026-07-27T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2026-07-28T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:31:16","slug":"remote-drive-acquisition-atola-boot-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atola.com\/blog\/remote-drive-acquisition-atola-boot-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote drive acquisition using Atola Boot Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the drive you need to image is a drive you can’t take out. The SSD is soldered to the motherboard. Or server that forbidden to disassemble. Here is how our customers talk about such kind of cases.<\/p>\n

Tax authority:<\/p>\n

During a physical search in the home of a suspect or a datacenter, connect the atola to the router \/switch on the network and plug in multiple usb sticks in computers on location to start imaging, or do perhaps even remote triage?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Law enforcement:<\/p>\n

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It would saves a lot of time if TaskForce was very far from the source drive location and allow to image a remotely located drive<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Army:<\/p>\n

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The imaging of a suspect computer through the network port is completed by booting the machine with a\u00a0 bootable USB drive (created with a utility provided by the maker of the imager).\u00a0 This comes in handy for laptops or tablets that are difficult or time consuming to disassemble in the field for imaging.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meet Atola Boot Image<\/h2>\n

Atola Boot Image is a free bootable Linux image designed by Atola Technology for effective remote forensic drive acquisition.<\/p>\n

You write it to a USB stick and then boot the target machine from it whether it’s a laptop or a server.\u00a0The machine exposes all its drives via iSCSI, so you can acquire them over the network.<\/p>\n

It works with all Atola imagers:<\/p>\n