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by FinetalPies
05 Feb 2022, 21:28
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Taking data from an old laptop drive
Replies: 7
Views: 6582

Re: Taking data from an old laptop drive

Right thank you I forgot to mention that "'testdisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." (I don't really understand the obsession with this edge of the internet's insistence that "Oh yeah just run it in terminal" is an effective way to program ...
by FinetalPies
04 Feb 2022, 21:48
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Taking data from an old laptop drive
Replies: 7
Views: 6582

Re: Taking data from an old laptop drive

Whoa cool, I found one of those forums where being an asshole isn't against the rules. Now that's proper oldschool. (Like, 1990's IRC chat oldschool, which is when "afaik" first saw common usage... iirc)

Anyway yeah so on page 53 DDRescue's Windows installation instructions amount to "Use Linux ...
by FinetalPies
04 Feb 2022, 16:07
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Taking data from an old laptop drive
Replies: 7
Views: 6582

Re: Taking data from an old laptop drive

Oh sorry, I mean the one linked in forum rules
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
by FinetalPies
04 Feb 2022, 13:46
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Taking data from an old laptop drive
Replies: 7
Views: 6582

Taking data from an old laptop drive

I'm on Windows 10, the drive I'm trying to recover files from was running Windows Vista. It was a SATA so I had no troubles hooking it up to my PC and while I could see it in Disk Management, it wasn't assigned a drive letter so I couldn't access it without initializing/formatting it, which would ...