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[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 06/08/20 07:59 (GMT-0400) James Knott apparently typed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

> If the failing drive is the one you're trying to recover the file from,
> DON'T!!!  The last thing you want to do, is write to the drive that
> you're trying to recover data from.  It's already flaky and writing will
> only make things worse.  Get a new drive and install Linux on it.  Then
> mount the bad drive and copy from it.

Any particular reason why you assumed I didn't do any of that before
writing? In fact, doze had virtually exclusive use of the bad hda, while
Linux had exclusive use of hdc. As soon as I knew the disk was bad I
cloned it to another, and I haven't booted from either the bad or the
cloned ever since, waiting to resolve whether I can or must recover the
lost file before allowing any new writes to either device.
-- 
"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time
we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."	Galatians 6:9 NIV

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