Dedoimedo posted Hard disk failure recovery - This is how you do it
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This is how we do it do it. Here's a short but useful article about an actual operating system hard disk corruption and a quick, effective method of recovery, including up-to-date backups, system imaging, partitioning from a Linux live session, bootloader setup, filesystem checks, other tips and tricks, and more. Less than one hour downtime, read on.Hard disk failure recovery - This is how you do it @ Dedoimedo