Hard drive failure is an inevitable fact of life — whether its your own fault or just an unfortunate byproduct of age. There will also come a time in your life when you’re going to want to recover a ...

All electronic components eventually fail at some point, especially hard drives. Hard drives do not always work at their best at all times, unexpected disk errors or unwanted delete actions can make ...

Keeping a Linux recovery drive is a wise approach because you can use it to access the disk files or reinstall the OS if it's beyond repair. Building a Ventoy drive and keeping multiple operating ...

Your hard drive may not always perform well, and sudden disk errors or accidental deletion can cause you to lose data. But there’s no need to feel frustrated after losing essential data on a hard ...

Q. I have a hard drive with valuable information on it, but I can't seem to access it — the drive is either damaged or erased. Is there any way I can see what's on the drive and get it off? Don't ...

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The following is the beginning of a series of columns on Linux disasters and how to recover from them, inspired in part by a Halloween Linux Journal Live episode ...

My IBM 60GXP just developed amnesia! According to the IBM DFT software it appears to have developed a bad sector. Fortunately the drive is only used for data, it's not my boot drive.<P> The DFT ...

My friend's brother had a 512MB Lexar Media Jumpdrive Pro USB drive that became corrupted after using it with Windows 2000. His IT department was able to get back some but not all of the file contents ...