29 Dec
2022
29 Dec
'22
12:08 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Just to clarify, if the formatted order is 1,3,5,2,4,
IMDU will return
the sectors numbered as 1,2,3,4,5, right?
A visual way to think about this is with IMDV. If you bring up a skewed image in IMDV and
move forward through the sectors with the right arrow, it increments the _logical_ sectors
by one (and you may see the _physical_ sectors flip all over the place). So it outputs
disk images in the order you'd see them coming out of the upper-right hand side of the
screen, the logical sector order. I believe that is in keeping with what you wrote
above.
Works for me for data recovery. Probably works for
the original
equipment, but not optimally.
It is not at all good for original equipment. It is good for emulation and manipulation
tools. The original .IMD has all the metadata to "do the right thing" for
reconstituting a disk image for real hardware. A linear image is for when you've shed
the mortal coil.
(Sorry for the delayed responses... the website is giving "server errors" until
a few hours pass after a thread is updated. It's quite annoying. Since I normally
consume digests, the website is where I need to go to make individual responses.)