Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

Brian McKee has written on 7/12/2008 6:35 PM:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
>   
>> Spinrite sees Drive 0, part 1 as NTFS or OS/2 HPFS followed by an
>> unpartitioned gap. And it runs the recovery program w/o errors through
>> 21.51% (8,603 MB) of the drive before it invokes it's "dynamic data
>> recovery" thing.
>>
>>
>> So why is Spinrite able to see the drive when Winders and Linux cannot???
>>     
>
> AFAIK, Spinrite pulls bits off the harddrive via the BIOS.  It runs in
> DOS, but it just talks to the BIOS.  

I suppose the BIOS has some rudimentary access to the HD

> Why that would work better or
> different than an *unmounted* drive in Linux I don't know.    Nice to
> see something is working for you....
>   
<sigh> It doesn't help me get files from the disk, though.

We'll see if freezing helps.