I've got some spare time on my hands and have looking at studying computer forensics as a personal project.

I was wondering if there is anyone out there with practical experience in the field? That could offer some good advice and perhaps some direction. I have some background in the security sector having worked with a well known Anti-virus company.

I've been looking at a few books on Amazon but not sure which way to, any help would be appreciated.
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Please explain

Not being in a school with really expensive equipment I would imagine your forensic days are limited...

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

It's a tool that allows advanced data recovery as it offers a low level perspective of a HDD.

If you wish to recover files from a HDD that suffered massive destruction (via fire, earthquake, etc) you need some pretty specialized euipment to lift the data from a physically broken disk.