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| Thread ID: 127011 | 2012-09-29 09:29:00 | Imaging a dead harddrive, what are my options? (Kinda urgent) | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | Press F1 |
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| 1304063 | 2012-09-30 22:13:00 | With a HDD with bad sectors, you want something that will pull data off as fast as possible while handling bad sectors well. I use Gnu ddrescue to make an image of drives like this, then scan the image with recovery software later. Better you use your time to make an image than bugger around scanning the drive with recovery software directly, while its condition gets worse and worse. |
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| 1304064 | 2012-10-01 06:59:00 | The 'hours of my time' thing I'm chalking up to experience. Gotta get it somehow, and it's a nice incentive. I've just ended up pulling any large files that seem like they work (like, photo type images, mp4 files, mp3 files) and flagging most of everything else as it either doesn't work, was far too small to be of use or just blah-ed. Gonna fiddle with the recovery partition next. |
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| 1304065 | 2012-10-02 05:58:00 | I gave up on it. Couldn't get the recovery manager to boot, my ISO didn't work with the OEM key (and was the wrong version besides and it wouldn't let me download the right one, BLARGH) and so on and so forth. I just burnt the photos and music i recovered to a DVD and threw it back to my stepdad this arvo. Though i did mention if it was going /spare/ I'd be keen to have it, given that it would need a few hundred dollars of repairs besides, which would be more than it's worth. |
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