RE: [SLUG] Brighthouse DVR file recovery?

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2007 - 23:47:00 EDT

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Ken Elliott wrote:

>>> 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.

I think with RAW access the host OS doesn't do squat with it (as long as you
don't do something silly like try to mount the drive). But maybe it's not
close enough to "complete control" for some reason. 

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