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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Unresponsive HDD, need advise on how to clone it to an SSD (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR HDD is dying, need a solution to transfer the data to another drive

In march 2021, I bought a 8TB Seagate Barracuda Compute on amazon, the drive was delivery in a shitty state (not even boxed) but functional.

Yesterday the drive is now giving the last breath, sometimes pc pc can only go past post if the drive isn't installed, had to buy an SSD (Samsung 870 QVO) that will only be delivered in December

Now I'm just waiting to get the SSD so I can (hopefully) transfer everything from the HDD to the SSD

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Data recovery is not really something you should DIY unless you are fine with losing the data. Chances are high you will make professional recovery more expensive or outright impossible by tinkering yourself.

Your best bet is to make a disk image. For this the HDD will be read like a vinyl record from beginning to end. For a file copy the read head usually has to seek around a lot to read all the file (fragments) bit by bit.