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GNU ddrescue 1.30 "Orders of Magnitude" Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head (www.phoronix.com)
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GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release. The new GNU ddrescue 1.30 is improved by "orders of magnitude" for the automatic recovery from drives with a dead head.

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[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 weeks ago

Sounds like it's time to get an IDE adaptor and try to recover something from my old drives

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