How to Triage a Hard Drive

[lcoughey]

lcoughey submitted a new resource:

How to triage a hard drive - Steps to safely handle a failing hard drive

With data recovery, your main goal is to get the patient drive cloned/imaged to a healthy drive. If you cannot do this with relative ease, it is a sure sign that something is wrong with the drive.

Let’s define some words that may have different meaning for different readers:

Clone – full sector-by-sector copy from one physical device to another

Image – full sector-by-sector copy from a physical device to a file stored on a formatted device

Backup –...

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[Davena]

Very nice. Thank you.

 

[RemotechIT]

Great resource mate, have shared with a few contacts. Thanks again.

 

[HFultzjr]

Thank you.

 

[lcoughey]

Thanks folks for all the positive feedback...I honestly did not expect so many glowing reviews.

 

[mickybee]

yes thank you

 

[Fraser Corrance]

Nice description of your process. I work for a shop that does quite a bit of data recovery and have been looking for ideas on how to improve our process and take things to the next level. It is hard to find good information about data recovery that is written by people who actually know what they are talking about.

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