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A comment on Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving and backups?.

Re:Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving a... by HWR_14 on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:19PM (#28517652)
Subquestion:

Does anyone have any good tools to pull (hopefully backed up) data off of failing disks?

What about imaging disks that are in filesystems your computer cannot read?

Ideally, these would be crossplatform, but suggestions across OSes would also work.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving a... by h4waii on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:02PM (#28526781)
dd and photorec + testdisk.

Image the failing drive, then run recovery tools on the image.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your approach to personal data archiving a... by HWR_14 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @11:21PM (#28534869)
I'm wondering if I should install the Linux Subsystem for Windows to use those tools. It looks like I'm going to need to be using Windows with these drives.
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