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Originally Posted by MuZiZZle
Because the PC it goes into could do anything to it?!?!?
It could write to the disk and totally fuck up any chance you have of recovering files.
Personally I'd scan it for bad sectors first, then take a dc3dd clone of it.
What do I know though......
not really dude, I just know what I'm doing
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Come on, when have you EVER seen any OS (Linux/Windows/Max/UNIX) Write to a secondary/mounted drive without being told to?
Only situation even remotely similar I've seen is mounting an NTFS drive in Linux and destroying the partition table if you don't unmount it cleanly. And that's still technically not being done by accident.
The dick thing was supposed to be tongue in cheek, didn't realize you were in the trade as well
But, I'd agree, taking an image of it would be a good practice, however, you'd need functioning hardware to plug the drive into order to take that backup anyways. So Jordyn's suggestion would still be valid, even if only to boot Ghost/Shadow protect etc to take an image.