If the entire drive is encrypted how would SpinRite be able to correctly
identify the filesystem type and update the appropriate entries when it
moves data?

-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: TrueCrypt

On 23 Jun 2010 at 10:02, Jeff Brown  wrote:

> one of the owners wants the answer to this question: "If a drive 
> becomes unusable(physical issue with the drive) will this make it 
> impossible for us to recover data from that drive?"

If the drive is recognized in the BIOS, you can run SpinRite against it.

SpinRite works below the OS, at the sector level, and can recover data
there.  
Once SpinRite has done its magic recovering the bad sectors, you should
be able to boot the OS again.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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