On 18 Jan 2018, at 09:12, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe this all started because I wanted to run some low-level disk > formatting software that was Windows only (Western Digital's Data LifeGuard > and Seagate's SeaTools). I tried doing this via Parallels, but I was > unsuccessful, though again I do not remember the details. Maybe I will start > fresh, this time with Parallels 11 and Windows 10, and see if it works now.
This is doable via VirtualBox for sure, though the instructions are a little different than simply running a windows virtual machine. Basically, you have to make sure the virtual machine has a low-level (block level) version of the drive it can access. I am sure it is possible in Parallels or Fusion as well. I've used this to run Spinrite on drives attached to my iMac, for example; that is about as low-level as it is possible to get. -- NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM MY ARMPITS Bart chalkboard Ep. 3F01 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
