Forensic clones are nice, but work in a different environment then I usually do. When I clone drives I use a computers with a device installed on it that works in DOS (Yes, I said DOS). This device has the ability to clone any hard drive to a larger hard drive (Well has problems with drives under 20GB).
The device has the ability to power the drive on and off, work with timing, and even copy a head at a time if needed. Basically it's a hardware level cloning machine. If I am using Windows or Windows PE to clone something I usually use Winhex. Winhex is a very powerful utility that has the ability to clone drives bit by bit to USB devices. Plus the hex editor is awesome. Regards, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Rick Glazier > Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:01 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Need MAJOR help with fubar'ed WinXP install > > Just out of curiosity, are you working on a forensic clone of the > drive, or the original? > > If a forensic clone, I've tried some creative "insane things" that > saved me sometimes. > Give it your best shot before you get too aggressive with it... > > I'll try to remember the nutty stuff I tried that worked. > It was definitely "counter-intuitive", AND last ditch grasping at > straws... > (And when possible, I work on forensic clones to have multiple > tries...) > > If a different program already found some old partitions, I can't say > my > "program of choice" will do much better, but you never know. > > My personal opinion is that 30 seconds is not enough time to wipe > the data off the drive clean. > It might "eventually" come down to how much you have defragged, > and how big your files were. > > Disclaimer: I'm a VERY amateur data recovery person at best. > > Rick Glazier > > From: "Bino Gopal" > > probably check out TestDisk to see what it > > shows.
