catastrophic failure (CCTV Drive)

[Larry Pham]

That sounds great Joost! It has been a while since I used the dd command 
but I like where this is going :)
I just got back from working an over night shift so I'll try this after 
some sleep.

Cheers,

Larry

Joost Schuttelaar wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 10:04 AM, Larry Pham wrote:
>
>   
>> I've tried a bunch of linux distros for data forensics and I can't  
>> even get the drive to detect so I can't moun it and so i have not  
>> been able to even back it up.
>>     
>
> For mounting you need a file system Linux recognizes. There is none so  
> it won't mount. But, you can just copy the raw binary data from the  
> disk to make a backup. When you connect the drive it should come up  
> as /dev/hdaX probably. Use dd.
>
> This is the first thing you should do, regardless.
>
> Then what about placing another drive in the CCTV box, formatting or  
> resetting it on the box (or whatever the procedure is to add a new  
> drive). Taking the drive out, and copying the raw binary data on that  
> drive from your image, except for the first 1024 bytes? That might work.
>
>