Recovering Data From Damaged, Failing or Formatted Hard Drive
#Linux #ComputerForensics #DataRecovery
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0073.html
I had some friends reach out to me recently after their external backup hard drive had stopped working. After trying some Windows tools and some utilities in Hiren's Boot CD I decided to take one last attempt using a Ubuntu 20.02 flash drive and some Linux utilities......was I successful?
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Commands Used for Reference
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- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get install testdisk
- sudo dpkg -i ./testdisk_7.1-5_amd64.deb
- sudo fdisk -l
- sudo testdisk /path/to/storage/device
- sudo photorec /path/to/storage/device
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