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Re:The Joy of Dumping by makmanalp on Saturday June 23, 2012 @11:42AM (#4151042)
Same with old sub 1gb harddrives. I do a full dd_rescue before I toss them away for good, lest they contain ancient history :)
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Re:The Joy of Dumping by FreeFull on Saturday June 23, 2012 @03:29PM (#4151575)
Nothing like connecting up one of your old HDDs and seeing what sort of data you used to have that you now forgot about.
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Re:The Joy of Dumping by makmanalp on Saturday June 23, 2012 @10:24PM (#4152406)
Add floppies to the list too!
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Re:The Joy of Dumping by pavel_lishin on Sunday June 24, 2012 @03:55PM (#4154084)
This is how I found a fully functional install of Windows 3.1, which happens to run quite happily inside VirtualBox.
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