Professional File Recovery That Works
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For state of the art software data recovery you will need 3 pieces of software: The Linux "dd" command installed (which I think comes with most if not all Linux distributions, the "ddrescue" software for Linux, and the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Windows. It would be nice if this could all be done under Linux, but at this point that is not possible.

Steps:

1. Start a computer with Linux and plug your hard drie or solid state drive that you want repaired into the Linux box or into a hard drive docking station

2. use "ddrescue" to make an "image" of the entire hard drive or solid state drive. getting everything recorded, and not a "sparse" file, you want everything working and not working into the drive image.

3. When all that can be retrieved is retrieved in your data file, use the "dd" command to copy the image data file onto a drive that is larger than your backup data file.

4. Bring your drive with the data and plug it into a Windows computer

5. Run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, and scan the drive on which the image has been retrieved from and copied to the mirrored drive.

6. Attach a third HDD/SSD onto which the EaseUS Data Recovery will use to place the recovered data on. This attachment will be a hard drive or solid state drive connected that is connected to the Windows computer.

7. So the computer will be mirrored with ddrescue, transferred into a fresh full-sized drive with "dd," recovered with EaseUS, and placed on to a second full sized drive with EaseUS by doing a "deep scan." At this point your data will be all retrieved; specifically all the data that can be retrieved will be retrieved; all the data that is able to be resetored/detected will be done. If there are areas that can not be recovered those spots would be marked as bad, but not ignored.

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Some specifications that you may find interesting regarding the EaseUS software:

The operating systems that it runs on are Windows 7-11 and Windows Server 2008-2019.

The partition tables that are compatible include
FAT(FAT12,FAT16,FAT32), exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5, ext2/ext3, HFS, ReFS

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can run off of 200 megs HDD space, a 1 GHz (32 or 64-bit) CPU, and 1 Gig of RAM

The EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard can be bought from their website for a lifetime license of around $150 USD, however slightly older versions can be bought on eBay for around $20-$30 USD for a lifetime license. Now unless you've got an expense account for your business I'd go for the older versions.
Now the selling of their older versions for a discount seems like a legit thing. They are selling off their older versions for a discount in the hope that rather than people pirate their software that they legitimately buy their software but just older versions, sort of like whetting their appetite for the latest and greatest version and encouraging the use of as much of their
product as can be sold. This doesn't seem to be warez, but rather the real thing. They offer licenses for various time periods of activation, however I see no real reason why not to get the lifetime license, especially for something like $30 USD that may not be the latest and greatest but fully functional without having to deal with new licenses down the road. If for some reason you feel a need for a more recent version then wait a couple years and get an older version compared to their newest, but that is newer than the version you will make your initial purchase of. At no point will you have the latest and greatest versions of it, however it should be good enough.

The method I have described for retrieving data from a broken or otherwise non-working systems is the optimal method. I have tried this and it works quite well. Granted you will have to deal with two different operating systems, but this is seriously the way to go. I can attest to this from my personal experience in IT Technical Support. It works well.

Cheers!
-warmfuzzy

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Hello warmfuzzy!

Professional File Recovery That Works
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For state of the art software data recovery you will need 3 pieces of software: The Linux "dd" command installed (which I think comes with most if not all Linux distributions, the "ddrescue" software for Linux, and the EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard for Windows. It would be nice if this could
all be done under Linux, but at this point that is not possible.

Why the need for EaseUS? I would think that ddrescue and dd
would be sufficient in creating the clone, and reversing the
process.

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-repair-and-clone-disk-with-
ddrescue

I used a similar approach when I needed to move my C: and H:
partitioned Windows 250GB HDD to a 1TB SSD. Simply booted the
Windows pc into a Linux distro, executed a command that "moved"
the C: and H: data over to the new SDD, and used dd to "adjust"
some blocks in the C: partition so that it would boot properly.
A linux-savvy friend of mine provided the assistance over a
live chat for that.
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