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Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« on: November 16, 2016, 12:14:15 am »
Hello all, I just thought i would pass on an awesome free program I found for backing up video game hard drives. Its called HDD Raw Copy Tool. I have tested it to work fast and flawless on a golden tee 2005, complete, 2009, 2016 & GT 2017. You can backup and restore from drive to drive direct and also to and from a compressed image file. You can even open up the widows disk management program from within the program.

All windows based, much easier and faster than chdman. :cheers:
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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2016, 12:23:34 am »
yes hhd raw is cool
but it also carrys a hidden trogan
should have reported that about 8 mths ago
my bawd

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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2016, 07:15:58 pm »
That's odd. My antivirus doesn't pickup any problems with mine.

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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2016, 08:43:34 pm »
i know
as a rule a trogan is hidding in the .exe file (which is where this i is hidding)
and will pass the mustard test

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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2016, 02:28:39 pm »
in all likelihood it's just a false positive.

if the program is requesting direct access to the disk controller and modifies the boot sector...it is exhibiting virus like behavior. most EXE's people normally use don't do this. a Heuristic analysis type watchdog will pick this up as unusual.

 it's probably fine, since this is what the program is made to do and we actually want it to do these things to the drive.

 if it was a screensaver and wanted to modify the boot sector.... not so much.

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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2016, 04:05:28 pm »
well people do not have to believe me
but before u run it
back up your hd
as with 7 it will tear off the boot sector
it is very handy at it
in xp it seems tame enough
but 7-?

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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2016, 12:36:55 am »
It works great for me in Windows 7&10.

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Re: Hard drive backup alternative to chdman
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2016, 01:08:58 am »
like i said u do not need to believe me
i run it on xp
but when i had it on 7 (32 and 64) and i remove it
thats when i found the problem,plus its is a niffty little reporter

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