RE: [SLUG] Brighthouse DVR file recovery?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 20:02:29 EDT


On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Ken Elliott wrote:

>>> Does anyone have any thoughts on recovering files off a Brighthouse DVR?
>
> Spinrite. Pull the drive and put it in a PC. Boot the PC with Spinrite.
> If it is recoverable, Spinrite will do it. Doesn't care about the OS or
> file system. Will take hours or days. Consider using it on your spare
> machine, since it will be tied up.
>
> http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Well, maybe you can run it in a VM, so it thinks it has the machine to
itself. Be sure it has raw access to that disk.

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