Sunday, June 23, 2024

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

Дана 24/06/23 10:28PM, Andy Bradford написа:
> Once you have that, make another copy of it and start using whatever
> tools you can to inspect the raw data to discover whether or not it is
> likely that you'll be able to recover anything from it.

(@OP:)
If the data is that important (family photos, etc), learn to create
backups of it, which, as situations like the one described show, is
more important for valuable data than encryption, especially when one
doesn't yet know the system well. Learn the system first, then go for
advanced topics like encryption. If you had a backup to begin with,
this wouldn't happen.

I had my "just make backups" moment when I was still using DOS in the
90s, and tried to compress a hard disk with DoubleSpace (or was it
DriveSpace?) without running chkdsk + defrag. Naturally, at X% the
compression stopped and I was left with half of my files gone.

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