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Two men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc. (www.patreon.com)

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The price for that GREASEWEAZLE is really good, around just 25 euro! Anyone ever tried it? I have two floppies that have sentimental value for me. One is from elementary school, I wanted to do a backup five years ago with an USB drive and fucking Windows Defender "cleaned" a boot virus by quick formatting the drive. The USB drive ignored the status of the "read only" tab and allowed that. I wasn't able to recover the data with any data recovery software (it shows empty because the MBR has gone) but the data is there, visible with an hex editor from a full image

The other is from middle school but there's a zip file that I can't copy because of a damaged sector. I would still be pointless, right?

[–] BrownKong@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just recovered an entire 6tb drive that was accidentally formatted using HDDSuperClone from a linuxlive USB.

Pretty much make the live usb and boot into Linux. Open "DMDE" to view the files on the formatted USB and copy it to another drive.

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