>> Well, maybe you can run it in a VM
Nope. You have to boot SpinRite itself. It does not run under a host OS.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 8:02 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Brighthouse DVR file recovery?
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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them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking
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