advice on data recovery?

[Dave Stevens]

On Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:01:21 +1000
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 01:47 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 00:49, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
> > wrote:  
> > > The simplest way to copy a healthy disk is dd:  
> > 
> > Stop right there.
> > 
> > dd will fail if there is a problem with the disk. Better to use GNU
> > ddrescue instead, which will not fail on errors but instead keep
> > going and recover as much as it can.  
> 
> Yep. Good advice.
> 
> But dd can be told to not fail on error. Also the OP did not say that
> the disk was faulty.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 

what worked well was photorec, recovered 2k+ files,correctly named and
typed by extension. Very handy. Thanks to all.

d

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