Forensic Toolkit, or FTK, is computer forensics software originally developed by AccessData, and now owned and actively developed by Exterro.

[1] It can, for example, potentially locate deleted emails[2] and scan a disk for text strings to use them as a password dictionary to crack encryption.

This tool saves an image of a hard disk in one file or in segments that may be later on reconstructed.

The forensic image can be saved in several formats, including DD/raw, E01, and AD1.

[4] AccessData Forensic Toolkit (PDF) This computer data storage-related software article is a stub.