Useful Tools
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File System Manipulation
- Aaru supports a fairly comprehensive collection of disk image, partition table, and file system formats, and is built with the Microsoft .NET Framework - builds exist, for several operating systems.
Archive Manipulation
- 7-Zip supports the Windows Imaging format (
.WIM) disk images, with LZX compression, as used by Windows 8.1 - XADMaster supports a fairly comprehensive collection of compression, and archival formats, and can also expand some disk image formats - this seems to be the basis of the "unar" utility, provided for Ubuntu, and some other Linux distributions.
- unshield is a CLI tool, for unpacking various flavours of InstallShield archive
Firmware Image Extraction
- The RandomSHX utility, for Windows will extract the contents of some Motorola P2K (e.g. A835) "UNIX Generated SuperFile" firmware archives - this requires Windows, and does not work with UNC paths
- The `srecord` package, under Ubuntu contains a utility, that can convert Motorola S-Record files, into plain binaries: (for example
srec_cat C139_V1.0.03.E.m0 -Output C139_V1.0.03.E.bin -Binary
- BinWalk is extremely useful, for extracting files, and resources out of firmware images, executables, and file system structures