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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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Can you shuck a drive BOTH before & after it has been written to? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifically a WD Elements (22gb).

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Back in the days I did that, I had some issues with it being unreadable with my 3 end 4TB ones.

Something to do with it internally converting MBR in the USB to SATA controller or something like that to allow larger disks on older systems. I don't remember the specifics.

Anyway, it can be that your data becomes unreadable, and you'll have to convert it with TestDisk or so. Or make sure you'll initialize it as GPT from the first time. Not sure if that will help.