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somewhat related, anyone have advice for data recovery from old external USB drives? I have a couple western digital USB drives, about 10 years old. they sho
by gricardo99 4y ago
somewhat related, anyone have advice for data recovery from old external USB drives?
I have a couple western digital USB drives, about 10 years old. they show up as a drive when plugged into a Mac or windows laptop but they disconnect when trying to navigate the folders or open/copy files.
- mypalmike 4y agoOn the Mac, figure out the device that gets assigned (e.g. /dev/sda) - you can find this in the disk utility app. Try to make a disk image from that device using dd on the command line. If you can mount the disk image, you should be able to access the files from there.