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Offline TrashMan

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I goit everything I need, but I still havn't copied the HD. Why?

HD copy in it's free version doens't support USB 2.0 and it's copy speed it limited to 5MB/s

So anyone know a HD copy program that doesn't come with these limitations?
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Linux?

Seriously. A Linux LiveCD would do the job, provided it has USB support. It has this lovely little command called 'dd' which raw copies stuff from one file to another. And on Linux, devices like hard disks are treated as files.

Something like 'dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY bs=40M' would do the job, where hdX is the source disk (likely hda if it's the IDE Primary Master) and hdY is the destination disk (hdb, hdc, or hdd depending on how many drives your machine has).
Leave it for a couple of hours and it'll make a perfect copy of the hard disk, provided the USB disk is at least as big.

Failing that, try 'gzip -c9 /dev/hdX > /dev/hdY', which will compress the disk image first. The reverse command is 'gunzip -c /dev/hdY > /dev/hdX', but you might want to test it on a scratch disk first.
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Dude, even if your USB drive was copying at its maximum speed you'd only reach about double that. Just set it going overnight and it'll be done by morning.

 

Offline TrashMan

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HD copy couldn't read the disk - spat some Error 5002.

Oh well, I guess that's it.
I've given up on the hard disk recovery (tragic, given that I found al lthe data on it, but I couldn' restore it)

There's a lot of stuff I'll have to re-do from scratch - my High-poly cockpited fighters, the HTL demon and many other things - but at least I'll prolly do them even better this time around :D
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Yes many other things...  :shaking:  :nervous: :shaking:... Will you try again?
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Offline TrashMan

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I did manage to save the SDF-1 in various versions, as well as the Dedalus and Prometheus :D


B.t.w. - my graphics card kicked the bucket and it's gonna take 8-9 days to repale it, so you won't be seeing me around.
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