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Data-Recovery posts

An image of a bare hard drive platter with the head and disk exposed.

Recovering data from a failed drive using ddrescue

My first foray into data recovery has been both educational and, blissfully, not too stressful. You always hear tales of damaged hard drives and complete data loss and think “that’ll never happen to me”. Well, it finally has happened to me, and thankfully the outcome has been pretty good (all things considered), and I’ve learned a bit along the way.

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