What security checks should be performed to ensure an exact copy is made?

Course: Digital Forensics and Investigations. Instruction: Computer imaging is the process of duplicating the data of an entire hard drive. Imaging has many uses. For example, many network and systems administrators use imaging to deploy a consistent operating system installation across a series of computers with the same hardware. This saves the administrator time and effort by not having to load each computer by hand. However, in the realm of computer forensics, disk imaging is used to make an exact copy of a drive to not “tamper with” or “damage” the original evidence. Answer the following questions in this paper. In computer forensics, what are the steps to creating an image of a disk? What security checks should be performed to ensure an exact copy is made? What are some reasons disk imaging is useful in computer forensics? In preparing your response, you should include at least one source from professional or academic literature, such as articles from peer-reviewed journals and relevant textbooks. The use of Wikipedia is not considered an academic or professional reference. You should also ensure to proofread and spell-check your responses. All sources should be formatted using APA guidelines. Attached are my lecture notes.