>> Sure. You can boot things in a VM so they _think_ they're running on
the bare metal.
Yes, but not all things. This is one of those things.
If you disagree, try running it and let me know how it works. Even if you
could run it, you shouldn't. It's doing some heavy duty stuff to the disk.
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 11:15 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Brighthouse DVR file recovery?
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Ken Elliott wrote:
>>> Well, maybe you can run it in a VM
>
> Nope. You have to boot SpinRite itself. It does not run under a host OS.
Sure. You can boot things in a VM so they _think_ they're running on the
bare metal. Faster to test a liveCD that way. You skip the step of burning
it, tell the VM software to act as though the iso file is a real CD, and go.
Seek time and throughput on a hard drive are a lot better than on a CD drive
too. VMware's free-as-in-beer now.
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