Any other ideas how i can get the data of this drive
Network aquisition with encase ?
Or the connection is probably a ZIF-40, is it a ribbon type connection ? zif-40/IDE bridges do exist maybe see if you can get hold of one.
I have a laptop in which i have to get the data off. The hard drive is a stupid toshiba conector of which i dont have an adaptor. So i need to boot using a live cd,
Just curious about the referenece to the stupid Toshiba connector. Most of the Toshibas I recall seeing had female connector on the drive. If that is what you are referring to, these things just slide off and you get a regular set of laptop pins.
RB
The Tableau ZIF IDE adapter works a treat
One of the things I have found to work best overall when using Helix is to always boot to console mode. The gui is pretty worthless.
Also, I find that booting helix into console mode helps it do a better job of detecting USB drives. I could be imagining that of course. lol I just get better results over all in console mode.
Anyway, make sure you have the USB drive plugged into the machine prior to turning it on for the boot up. Helix does not do hot swap very well.
The HDD will be mounted automatically in read only mode.
To mount the USB drive do the following.
A little trick you can use to see all the drives on the system if you are not a Linux guru is to run linen. It will show all the devices that Helix can see.
This is all I ever really need to do, I don't even use hdparm to set the RW parameters.
# mkdir /mnt/target (creates a mount point, required before you can actually mount a drive)
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/target (sda1 may be something else depending on how helix sees the device.)
(on this drive, i'll add a folder for the item I'm acquiring)
# mkdir /mnt/target/item01
Remember that Linux is case sensitive unlike Windows. So you have to type everything exactly the same as shown above.
I hope that helps a little.