jon1962 wrote:
pepe wrote:
without system area access it is not possible to read a single sector from the drive, so it is the very first step to gain access to important SA objects.
Do you mean that even after imaging 100%, without SA, you are still unable to access data? How do you gain access then? Thanks bro
This this way, SA or System Area is the "firmware" that is written on platters. If the drive doesn't read this data from the platters to the drive RAM the the drive will not work at all and you can't image/clone it.
Your data is inside the "user area" from LBA 0 till the end. You can't access to LBA at all unless SA is working at least at a level that allow user space area access.
If someone is "imaging" or "cloning" the drive then SA did work already to the point of initializing the drive to allow LBA space access.
If you image 100% of the drive then you do have working SA.
There are some "exceptions" like damaged defect lists and translator that can cause "shifts" or stuff like that but for now let's assume that the platter scratch is outside the SA space and it's located on the user area.
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