ddrescue might be of some value if you wanted to analyze the data.
ddrescue might be of some value if you wanted to analyze the data.Ddrescue is purely a cloning tool. It doesn't analyse anything. There is a companion utility (ddrutility) which can use ddrescue's log file to determine which, if any, files are affected by bad sectors. This utility was written by the author of HDDSuperClone.
ddrescue might be of some value if you wanted to analyze the data.Ddrescue is purely a cloning tool. It doesn't analyse anything. There is a companion utility (ddrutility) which can use ddrescue's log file to determine which, if any, files are affected by bad sectors. This utility was written by the author of HDDSuperClone.This HDD doesn't seem to have a file system which is recognised by anything.
Sector by sector copy worked just fine.
Agilent has removed all software/firmware updates for this unit from the site. So if the HDD fails, that is it, the unit becomes unusable. I copied into an IDE SSD and the instrument is now safe!
Sector by sector copy worked just fine.
Agilent has removed all software/firmware updates for this unit from the site. So if the HDD fails, that is it, the unit becomes unusable. I copied into an IDE SSD and the instrument is now safe!
on the risk of hacking this topic : since all the file system securities are basically handled by the file system driver , is there a driver that ignores the security ?
The file system says file xyz belongs to user yadda, or has certain bits turned on (like it he dos days , archive, read only , system , hidden etc )
This is all by convention and handled in the file system driver. swap out the driver for a version that ignores all this hoopla and you can read write anything you want.
i ran into a situation on an old computer of mine where i had two logins. i was admin on both. i wanted to delete one of them and no matter what it tried i could not delete one directory. you need admin permission. i am admin. access denied ... it was a google drive shadow folder. i finally found some obscure command line operation that could reset the flags so i could access the files.
having a file system driver that goes "screw all these security locks, i'm not respecting them" would solve such issues.
What file system, and what host OS are you talking about? With a Linux host, as long as you have root, it will let you do anything to mounted file system. Also, when mounting an NTFS filesystem on Linux, it allows you to specify which Linux user should be the owner and what the Linux permissions will be: see the documentation for the mount command.
any file system any os.
that doesn't work on a windows machine : can't ready foreign file systems and if the drive is ntfs it wants to enforce the permissions.
When Windows mounts another system's NTFS file system, it does 'respect' the existing permissions, just like Linux, etc. However, if you're logged in as an administrator on the OS, then you can simply seize ownership of the affected files/folders at which point you can change the permissions as necessary so you can access them. The equivalent process in Linux might be 'sudo chown' and 'sudo chmod' for example.
i ran into a situation on an old computer of mine where i had two logins. i was admin on both. i wanted to delete one of them and no matter what it tried i could not delete one directory. you need admin permission. i am admin. access denied ... it was a google drive shadow folder. i finally found some obscure command line operation that could reset the flags so i could access the files.
Sector by sector copy worked just fine.
Agilent has removed all software/firmware updates for this unit from the site. So if the HDD fails, that is it, the unit becomes unusable. I copied into an IDE SSD and the instrument is now safe!
Sector by sector copy worked just fine.
Agilent has removed all software/firmware updates for this unit from the site. So if the HDD fails, that is it, the unit becomes unusable. I copied into an IDE SSD and the instrument is now safe!
then you can simply seize ownership of the affected files/folders at which point you can change the permissions as necessary so you can access them.
Agilent has removed all software/firmware updates for this unit from the site. So if the HDD fails, that is it, the unit becomes unusable. I copied into an IDE SSD and the instrument is now safe!