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<p>Murray,</p>
<p>First thing to do is us 'dd' to make a copy of the affected hard
drive. Then attempt recovery on the dd image. If the recovery on
the image goes badly, you still have the original.<br>
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<p>I was recovering a VFAT partition, but I suspect you are running
ext3 or ext4. I haven't tried recovering "linux" file types.<br>
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<p>Craig...<br>
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<div>I have a 2TB WD Black HD that has failed. I can still
see the partitions, but cannot mount them. SMART shows
many bad sectors, and that it has failed, but at least it
is detectable. There are many FOSS data recovery tools
out there, and I know that you should get as much data off
as soon as possible and as "gently" as possible as the
disk is most likely to keep getting worse until it fails
so completely that nothing short of an expensive data
recovery company will be able to get anything from it.
Here is a recent list:</div>
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<div>I have used TestDisk and PhotoRec to recover
accidentally deleted files. However, that is not the
current situation--the files weren't deleted. The disk is
failing and corrupt which is different. Most of the tools
listed seem to be most useful for accidentally deleted
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<div>From what I see in the list, it appears that Autopsy
might be the best one to try. Has anyone used this, and if
so, how successful was the operation?</div>
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<div>Thanks for any help.</div>
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