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Hello fellow geeks. I'm working on data recovery on a friend's laptop. They want their pictures recovered. I booted up from a systemrescuecd bootable USB and I'm running ddrescue, using the log file, of course. It's been running for two weeks and it's up to 74.47% of a 1TB hard drive. The disk...

So i just got a new HDD like 2 days ago, (Toshiba X300 6TB). However sometimes it sounds pretty strange... I've heard most Drive prob's are identified by the Noise they make, So I'm hoping mine is fine, maybe just a little noisy... Here is a video of me holding mic next to the drive - I...