All - I need some help or advice. I have a Dell Latitude D420 with a Toshiba 60GB Hard Drive (MK6008GAH). When I extract the hard drive, there is an orange flat cable attached that appears to be integrated directly into the drive. I don't believe I can remove it and I have no way to physically interface with this hard drive. So, I tried to do a live capture with Linen or Helix. Neither worked. There is no internal CDROM or floppy drive on this laptop and when my bootable CD Roms try to access the drive, they tell me that they can't find the linux file system. I think this is because I am trying to boot it from an external USB CD Rom.
I need a way to image this laptop. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Greetings,
This same question was asked on the CCE list. For anyone not on that list, the updated information is
- This is a ZIF drive and he's looking for an adapter
- It doesn't have an internal CD/DVD or floppy drive so booting Helix that way is out.
- He's having problems booting Helix with his external CD drive.
-David
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Check out the Tableau site they have a decent ZIF adapter set. I think WiebeTech does also. The process is a bit scary the first time, well, most every time really. Just be careful, go slow and be gentle with that ribbon.
Another alternative is using Helix with an external cd-rom.
Either method works but I have had issues with using Helix via the external drive. But a couple of minutes ago a co-worker pointed out that if you use
boot helix nodma
That it should get Helix to recognize the drive.
Another option may be to setup helix on a tftp server on another laptop and pxe boot it from the target laptop.
Mike
I also have come across this and was successful in using an EnCase boot disk via an external CD-ROM drive to acquire the laptop. Since then I have purchased a zif adapter from tableau and these work very well.
The first time I came across a zif drive I had success with using an EnCase boot disk via a USB CD drive and imaging to an external USB drive.
Since then I've been using the Tableau zif adapter which works very well.
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The first time I came across a zif drive I had success with using an EnCase boot disk via a USB CD drive and imaging to an external USB drive.
Since then I've been using the Tableau zif adapter which works very well.
How much is the Tableau adapter? I'll be surprised if the price