“Giuliani team had it for a while”
Nothing is clear.
But yes, someone made a disk image before it got turned over the FBI.
I’ve thought the disk image of at least one Biden laptop comes from ChiComs and Miles Guo was able to obtain it.
Contents of that we’re out on a server, I forget the URL.
Giuliani tried to be too cute, and didn't get the info out there.
Rudy really didn't do a great job with Trunp 2020.
I beg to differ I listen to Steve Bannon yesterday with Bernie Kerik and all of the lawyers discussing how much they studied the laptop when it was in their possession and they have said they made copies
What’s in it well I’ve seen what I’ve seen
The personal pics are damning
The niece
The drug use
And so on
The emails I’m less certain of
But yes, someone made a disk image before it got turned over the FBI.
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A disc image only tells you the state of data storage as it existed at the time of the image. You cannot do a forensic scan of every gate to see how the previously existed and find previously deleted files if they have been overwritten.
However, if Hunter had only been using a small fraction of his HD (well less than half) then there is a good chance that a lot of ‘deleted’ file data was never overwritten.
But having the original physical hard disk itself (not an image, mirror, or even part of array) allows you to recover more.