Using Guymager

Guymager is an all purpose software tool with a user interface for creating disk images. When using the BitCurator machines, it is your first choice for imaging hard drives, memory cards, Zip disks, 3.5” floppy disks via USB, and data on optical discs. 

The following instructions are modified from the Bitcurator Quick Start Guide

Note: Mounting the device is not required to create an image of it. If you wish to mount the device, click on the Files icon in the dock, and select the name of the indicated volume on the device to mount. If you are not using a hardware write blocker, or if the USB device read-only policy is not enabled, your device is now mounted and writable.

Click on the Applications menu in the top left of the screen, then navigate to the Imaging and Recovery submenu. Then click on Guymager. Guymager requires elevated privileges for access to physical devices; you will be prompted for your password to enable this. Once Guymager has loaded, the main interface appears as in the picture above. In this example, the 3.25 inch floppy disk drive is used, but the following steps apply to all formats.

Next, right-click on the selected device (in this example, a 3.25 USB floppy drive listed as MITSUMI_USB_FDD) and select Acquire Image from the context menu. 

A new dialog prompt will appear. This disk image will be acquired using the Expert Witness Format (the second option at the top). Guymager will split EWF images into 2048MiB segments by default. If you do not wish to split the image, set the Split size to something very large (2 EiB, for example).

The five metadata fields starting with Batch number are required. See below for more information:

• Batch Number: Accession number

• Item Number: Item barcode

• Contact Name: uniqname of processor

• Description: Title

 Under Destination select the image directory you would like the disk image to be saved to. In this case, we have simply chosen to write the image to a folder on the Desktop. Finally, under Image filename and Info filename use the barcode for the item. The Calculate MD5 and Verify image after acquisition checkboxes should remain checked. Then click Start.

You will see the main dialog state change to Running. When the acquisition finishes, you will see a Finished - Verified & Ok message in the State column. 

Repeat this process with the next item.