>> Don't have a sacrificial drive, so I didn't test that.
I'd think you a brave soul if you did. Sure you can boot it and run it, but
think about it. SpinRite assumes it has exclusive access to the drive, and
is modifying the drive at the lowest possible level, so if the host OS does
anything, that could make a mess. Steve Gibson says "holy smoke, please
don't do that", so I'll leave it to someone else to repair a drive under a
VM.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Eben King
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:40 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Brighthouse DVR file recovery?
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Ken Elliott wrote:
>> 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.
Spinrite 6 (w/ lowest-common-denominator drive-access params) ran without
complaints in VMware Player 2.0 build 45731. Don't have a sacrificial
drive, so I didn't test that. Do you know of a configuration where it
fails?
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-eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
Answer: two spoonfuls in my cup, please.
Question: how much should I use? (why top-posting is bad)
http://www.fscked.co.uk/writing/top-posting-cuss.html
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