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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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Failing hard drive?? Bad/reallocated sectors. Is there any saving files at all? (alien.top)

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

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My GF's drive has been acting finicky over the past couple of days - from restarts to crashes to corrupt images and files. And while thankfully nothing super important has been lost, it sucks that a fair number of images are cut in half or look like this:

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So what's going on? IS it failing? I'd like to back everything up ASAP but am worried a lot of it wont transfer or will get further lost in the process. Is there are reversing of the damage at all?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

9. r/techsupport exists.

r/Datahoarder is not a sub for tech support,

r/techsupport is for posts which could have been a google search, e.g. a post with CrystalDiskInfo screenshots with the title "is my drive ok?". Literally every question about SMART status. A**udio recordings of "is this click noise normal?" More technical questions are allowed, e.g. "what is the optimal ZFS configuration of a 24 disk array" or "how else can i automate the archiving of this [thing]"