Re: Incompetent? was Re: Using Linux to Recover bad NTFS drive.

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 01:55:21 +0200

In comp.os.linux.misc Tony Lawrence <foo@pcunix.com>:
> Mike Cox wrote:

>> How would one read the data on a raw device? mount as ntfs? Is it
>> possile to non-destructively copy the ntfs drive to linux and then
>> manipulate it in linux so I wouldn't have to touch the defective drive
>> again?
>>

> Assuming sufficient space, you could just dd the device to a file, and
> then do whatever you like with that, including mounting the file using
> the loopback device.

> But is this the same Mike Cox who recently posted "Solaris 10 success
> story" and said "Unfortunately, I had to inform the client that their
> sys Admins were incompetent" ?

Looks like the same poster who claimed not that long ago being 13
years old, which might be true thinking about the repeated
trollish behavior in the past.

[..] 

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