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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: whawha on May 26, '06 03:20:17AM

Thank you very much for posting this hint. I have a dead ext firewire hd with a lot of data that I need to recover. The disk still spins, but will not mount - a grating noise makes me suspect that there is damage to the head that reads the disk.
I'm pretty desperate to recover this data, unfortunately my knowledge about Unix and related topics is complete zero. Could somebody kindly guide through the process? I went to the ddrescue download page
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ and I dont even know which file to download to get started.
I'd be very, very grateful if someone could help me with this.
Andrea



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