Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Steve Gibson (Was: Re: Data Recovery)
2009/1/27 Steve Kemp <steve@???>: > Not only do the drives, in general, not export that level of control
> such that it may be externally manipulated to do so would require a
> level of access hard to achieve even going direct. (Given the number
> of mostly-standard but not-quite drives in existence even if you
> limit yourself to just IDE/SATA/AHCI/etc.)
>
I've listened to Security Now (his podcast) for some time now and he's
talked about the workings of spinrite a number of times. He writes all
his apps in x86 assembler and talks to devices at a fairly low level.
I know he's said that spinrite does a few funky things to try to get
access to sectors/clusters which may have data that you're trying to
recover.I recall him talking about how it tries coming from one end of
the disk and the other when approaching a track/head/sector. The idea
being that there may be alignment issues which are resolved by this
approach. Not saying he's right, just reporting what he's said on his
podcast in the past.
> (Not sure if the tool in question runs in windows, from a bootdisk,
> or via DOS.
It is a boot disk which doesn't require any OS installed to work.
