At a time when data forensics becomes a major part of law enforcement and prosecution in the public sector, and security companies and systems in the private sector, interested in this subject has just started to bloom. CD and DVD Forensics is how the book will give readers tools to open CDs and DVDs in an effort to identify evidence of crimes. To achieve this the book is divided into four basic sections: (a) CD and DVD of physics relating to the construction, history and technology of CD and DVD media, (b) any system files on CDs and DVDs and how it differs from that found on the hard disks, diskettes and other media, (c) considerations for handling CD and DVD evidence of both recover the maximum amount of information present on the disk and to do so without destroying or changing the disk in any way, and (d) using the product InfinaDyne CD / DVD Inspector to examine discs in detail and gather evidence.