RTVTools is just a front end for Extract_RTV5 - you can get the job done using the tool directly from a DOS prompt (i.e. click Start, Run, and enter "command"). Here are verbatim notes on using extract_rtv5 from the author:
Because the shows themselves and the show description information are kept in different disk partitions, it isn't currently possible to perform getting all the shows with the XML files in a single command line operation. I have posted this to AVSForum a couple of times (there seems to be more activity there with wanting to recover crashed or erased hard drives). The first command line, which is for getting every show possible off of the drive, is "extract_rtv5 -p2 -e". I think the -e alone option also defaults to -p2, but I am showing it for clarity. If you want to also extract deleted shows, then you use "extract_rtv5 -p2 -ur" to recover all deleted files from the shows partition. I think this one also defaults to -p2 as well...
The option for creating the description XML files is some form of dx. All of the d options default to -p1. A basic command line for creating all the XML files would be "extract_rtv5 -p1 -dx". If you had problems with the directory where the file descriptions are stored, then you could use "extract_rtv5 -p1 -dsx" to attempt to create the XML files using the snapshot file. The snapshot file is the same file that WiRNS uses to get all the information about a Replay. If the drive had been erased, then you could try "extract_rtv5 -p1 -udx" to try to find erased show description files, or "extract_rtv5 -p1 -udsx" to try to find erased snapshot files...
On a perfectly functional hard drive you would simply run:
"extract_rtv5 -p2 -e"
followed by:
"extract_rtv5 -p1 -dx"
If you had other problems, then you would try the other combinations that I listed above...
Because the shows themselves and the show description information are kept in different disk partitions, it isn't currently possible to perform getting all the shows with the XML files in a single command line operation. I have posted this to AVSForum a couple of times (there seems to be more activity there with wanting to recover crashed or erased hard drives). The first command line, which is for getting every show possible off of the drive, is "extract_rtv5 -p2 -e". I think the -e alone option also defaults to -p2, but I am showing it for clarity. If you want to also extract deleted shows, then you use "extract_rtv5 -p2 -ur" to recover all deleted files from the shows partition. I think this one also defaults to -p2 as well...
The option for creating the description XML files is some form of dx. All of the d options default to -p1. A basic command line for creating all the XML files would be "extract_rtv5 -p1 -dx". If you had problems with the directory where the file descriptions are stored, then you could use "extract_rtv5 -p1 -dsx" to attempt to create the XML files using the snapshot file. The snapshot file is the same file that WiRNS uses to get all the information about a Replay. If the drive had been erased, then you could try "extract_rtv5 -p1 -udx" to try to find erased show description files, or "extract_rtv5 -p1 -udsx" to try to find erased snapshot files...
On a perfectly functional hard drive you would simply run:
"extract_rtv5 -p2 -e"
followed by:
"extract_rtv5 -p1 -dx"
If you had other problems, then you would try the other combinations that I listed above...
