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I created an image using disks. A few bad sectors were found, very few data replaced with zeros. Seems that most of it was done successfully. Now in the process of trying to recover the data from the image.
DD rescue was too complicated for me...

Alright. I wonder why ddrescue is suggested while it seems possible to create a disk image using disks. It seems much more simple and user friendly.

Oh my... this is getting too technical for me... Could you please try to explain a little bit?

I am not ignoring it. It was just impossible to see the drive with linux, as I said above.

Also, I get: SMART data not available

Thank you for your reply
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