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What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) to recover data from failed HDD would you recommend for first time user?
What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) would you recommend for an user which unfortunately needs to rescue data from a bad disk (filesystems does not mount when using LiveCD, though fdisk looks O.K.) for a ...
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How do I resize a disk image device?
I'm trying to reduce the size of a backup drive image. Original disk had these partitions:
Model: ST916082 1A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: ...
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ddrescue: reread only good sectors?
Before imaging the corrupted filesystem to a file on another hard drive, I decided to dry-run ddrescue (throwing rescued output to /dev/null) just to see how much data is unreadable:
# ddrescue -d -b ...
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How to split a ddrescue disk image and how to use it again?
I have a 500GB external HDD that I need to rescue the contents of. Unfortunately I only have two 400GB partitions to save the contents to. Can I split the disk image as:
~$ cd /mnt/part1/Recovery/
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