-=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to DANNY CEPPA <=-

 MK> Hey Danny!

 MK> Mar 12 14:19 07, Danny Ceppa wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 DC> It's TESTDISK-6.6.  I'm runing it in WIN mode.  There's a linux
 DC> version
 DC> available.

 MK> Ah!  That explains the slowness.

 DC> Does it work with NTFS format?

 MK> It doesn't have to know the format of the drive as it mirrors it
 MK> faithfully. You can work with entire drives, just partitions, or parts

Seems to me that dd with the correct specified parameters could accomplish
this sort of mirror but what do I know ;-)

 MK> of drives/partitions if you know what blocks whatever you are attemting
 MK> to mirror is.  That is what makes it powerful.  It just doesn't care.
 MK> You can also make faithful mirrors of CD's, DVD's, floppies, flash
 MK> disks, whatever.  Given a entire mirror of a bootable media the end
 MK> result will be bootable too, if you know how to do this.

Oh my.
You've given me some ideas here. 

 MK> Piece of cake.


 MK>> There is a place in Vancouver that charges over $1000 for this sort
 MK>> of thing.  Unreal eh?

 DC> I've seen some really high quotes for data recovery.

 MK> For sure.  I doubt very much they use TESTDISK.  ;-)

 MK> You need to be using Linux, or some other Unice to get the really good
 MK> stuff. Even stinkin' OS-X has 'dd'!!!  Keep up with the past already
 MK> buddy!

 MK> Windows, any version, is an extremely crippled toy.

I think perhaps you are right ;-)
 
 
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