hard-drive-recovery Archives

Can a part of a hard drive break?

By JamesPosted on March 18, 2023

QUESTION : Is it possible for only a specific part of a hard drive to become unusable? I had Ubuntu […]

By JamesPosted on February 13, 2023

QUESTION : I used Killdisk to wipe a hard drive intending to clean it before selling. I now cannot use […]

By JamesPosted on January 13, 2023

QUESTION : I’ve got an old harddrive (Seagate, 200MB) here which just failed, and I wanted to get an image […]

By JamesPosted on January 2, 2023

Problem : It’s for an assignment to practice a bit of forensics. We’re given VirtualBox images and told to figure […]

By JamesPosted on December 9, 2022

QUESTION : Does anyone know a museum, university, etc that has the capability to read data from a IBM Winchester […]

By JamesPosted on December 8, 2022

QUESTION : I’m using ddrescue to image a drive, and it’s slowed down to about .1 % as fast as […]

By JamesPosted on October 30, 2022

Problem : I asked this on Ask Ubuntu without success and they recommend to repost it on superuser, so here […]

By JamesPosted on October 19, 2022

QUESTION : I know there are many restoration-related articles (read through some of them), however my scenario seems to be […]

By JamesPosted on September 12, 2022

QUESTION : I need to restore some documents, images, music, etc. from an old hard drive, which is filled with […]

By JamesPosted on September 10, 2022

QUESTION : I was using EaseUS partition manager to extend my drive’s capacity by including a 100GB partition into it. […]