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Need advice about an old hard drive
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AFTER you have the disk image my goto tool would be photorec, but there are other tools
I would go for at least 2x the free space as the old drive, the first 1x is for the drive image, the second is for recovered files.
Hear, hear! Spent so Goddamn much time trying to recover a 256gb drive onto a 500gb drive when I had a stinking 1tb drive sitting in the next room! Just thinking about it makes me owe the swear jar another 2$!