Here is a list of some free Computer Forensic tools and software that you may use to examine for traces of data from broken computers for various purposes.

CAINE (Computer Aided Investigative Environment) is an open source forensic platform that combines software tools as modules with strong scripts in a graphical user interface environment.

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4. The Sleuth Kit The Sleuth Kit is one of the open-source data acquisition tools for digital forensic analysis that allow them to extract data from hard disk drives and other types of storage media.