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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?

An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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Data rescue - general advice & ddrescue output

I have a broken 4TB NTFS Seagate HDD with thousands of tiff images with measurement data: Ubuntu Disk tells me, "Disk is OK, one bad sector", Contents: "Unknown". The BIOS doesn't ...
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Seagate Backup Plus portable USB HDD beeps and won't mount

About two years ago, I bought me a Seagate "Backup Plus" Portable HDD, 2 TB capacity. Model: SRD00F1. And indeed, I filled it with some content. It's not critical material, but - it's the only copy I ...
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