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 ====== Data Recovery ======
-If the hardware is suspect, then the first thing to do is get a byte-for-byte copy of the drive's contents into a disk image file.  The less time spent using possibly faulty hardware the better.
+If the hardware is suspect, then the first thing to do is get a byte-for-byte copy of the drive's contents into a disk image file.  The less time spent using possibly faulty hardware the better.  For this, use ''ddrescue'' instead of ''dd'', as ''ddrescue'' will repeatedly try to recover from errors as it tried to salvage data, whereas dd will simply fail.
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