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I used the command ddrescue -f /dev/sdd /dev/sdc logfile.log to clone it to a blank usbdrive. There were no errors during the cloning. I tried r-studio undelete and getdataback. Both failed. When I use getdataback and I click on a file or folder that is lost, the preview window opens but is...

I duplicated it onto another flash drive with DDRESCUE. On the duplicate, I first tried recuva. Recuva failed. I then tried clicking yes to "scan and fix" when I inserted the duplicated drive into a windows PC. This resulted in the corrupted folders being removed. Should I duplicate the...

Thanks for quick reply. I made a live USB. I booted from it a few times. Never saved anything duing the live sessions. On a later date, the flash disk was in my pocket and I was using a windows PC. I needed to save some files so I just grabbed the disk from my pocket and put it in the PC I...

I have an 8GB USB flash disk I need to get important files from. The disk has a live bootable linux installed that I rarely used and being lazy I was saving files to it just like a spare flash disk I had to hand when using a Windows 7 PC. I may have booted it and not shut down correctly at some...

BACKGROUND My laptop hard disk was removed so I used an external 3.5 inch 3TB disk plugged into the laptops esata port as a temporary disk. The disk was multi partitioned approximately as follows: 1. windows recovery 2. system thing 100MB 3. windows 7 NTFS 4. Linux mint ext4 5. another NTFS...