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 Post subject: newbie question: understanding LBAs
PostPosted: March 6th, 2009, 22:06 
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Hello Forum,

I have a YEC Ninja, my first professional data recovery tool. I've recently learned how to send the Ninja the commands to only scan a certain section of the disk. However, the command must be sent in this format: "100H-200H" -- which I understand as LBA (format?)? I only understand, say, sectors "1,000,000-5,000,000."
Could someone please tell me how I convert 1,000,000 sectors to XXXH? Is there a program to do this? Or an equation? Or am I way off?

SUPER Appreciative! :) Thanks!

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 Post subject: Re: newbie question: understanding LBAs
PostPosted: March 6th, 2009, 22:52 
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fyi any newbies:

An LBA is the sector number. The “H” just means it’s a hexadecimal representation of that number. An easy way to convert decimal to hex is to use Windows’ Calculator.

For example, to convert sector 1,003,392 to hex you would input 1,003,392 into Calculator, select “Dec” as the input type, then change the type to “Hex”. The hexadecimal representation would be F4F80.

*thanks to bill snyder at yec for this quick answer*

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Oh no another secret blown for all and sundry to read

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