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            <h1>Recovering Data From Damaged, Failing or Formatted Hard Drive</h1>
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          <div>I had some friends reach out to me recently after their external backup hard drive had stopped working. After trying some Windows tools and some utilities in Hiren&#39;s Boot CD I decided to take one last attempt using a Ubuntu 20.02 flash drive and some Linux utilities......was I successful?</div>

<h2>Commands Used for Reference</h2>

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	<li>sudo apt-get update</li>
	<li>sudo apt-get upgrade</li>
	<li>sudo apt-get install testdisk<br />
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	<li>sudo dpkg -i ./testdisk_7.1-5_amd64.deb</li>
	<li>sudo fdisk -l<br />
	&nbsp;</li>
	<li>sudo testdisk /path/to/storage/device</li>
	<li>sudo photorec&nbsp;/path/to/storage/device</li>
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