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    Is doing dd a good thing at 15kB/s ?

    I am trying to recover a 2T WD win10 system drive and I have it on a linux MInt machine and I'm running dd on it. I'm getting only 15KB/s. This means an enormous number of failed reads doesn't it? I just got quoted a figure of something like 100 billion reads to get 1 GB written. Since...
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    When SuperClone Breaks A Drive - What Then?

    Not really 'broke a drive' . But kind of. I have a Western Digital 2T that was a Win10 system disk and suddenly couldn't be read, couldn't even be seen by Windows. Put it in my LinuxMint box and found it could be seen but could not be mounted fully - only as read only. But mounted read only...
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    how to install hddsuperclone on mint?

    I just downloaded the rpm file for superclone onto my mint system but now i'm at a loss as to what to do with it, how to install it. Can anyone help?
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    Drive Will Not Mount on Linux, Windows Can't See it.

    I've had this Western Digital Blue 256MB Cache 2T since January and last week it died. It was in a Win10 box as the system disk and suddenly I couldn't even boot up. I put it on a Linux Mint system and it could see it alright but said that it was unmountable. Took it back to another Windows...
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