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Need some help in recovery data from a damaged external HDD

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f0dder:
Recovery tools (the ones worth using, anyway) do a bit more analysis than just "copying the files", so the copying process after recovery should be a good deal faster. And connecting the drives "directly" instead of USB should also be a bit faster, and have less CPU overhead.

The "partition table restore" thing sounds interesting - obviously won't work for non-standard partitioning, and won't work if there's more severe corruption than just the partition table being knocked out... but interesting nonetheless.

large usb drives should only have a small internal, cache max 2mb , to avoid write errors, and wait a few seconds after operation before detachment. Do not activate drive delay on usb drives.
-donzonion
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I don't agree here, as it would make the drives too slow. Heck, with a very small cache and syncing too often, you might get enough wear&tear on the drive that it'll die early :)

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