Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Recovery

Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021) (benjojo.co.uk)
Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. However there always seems to be some critical machine in my life that does not fall into these buckets.

Data Recovery, Backup, Storage

76 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 13 comments

Crashing rockets and recovering data from damaged flash chips (dontvacuum.me)
In Spring 2020, during IAP, the MIT Rocket team launched multiple rockets at the FAR site in the Mojave desert in California.

Space Exploration, Engineering, Data Recovery

70 points by xyx0826 33 days ago | 13 comments

Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data (ycombinator.com)
I've been locked out of my Google account which contains over a decade of my digital life, and I'm at my wit's end trying to recover it.

Data Recovery, Personal Data, Online Security

242 points by taosx 42 days ago | 119 comments

What's New in SpinRite 6.1? (grc.com)
NOW SpinRite 6.1 – Fast and useful for spinning and solid state mass storage! Since 1988.It Works.

Software, Data Recovery, New Releases

4 points by Auguste 124 days ago | 0 comments

A Starter's guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs (wordpress.com)

Data Recovery, Technology, DIY, CDs

93 points by nixass 153 days ago | 24 comments

Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable (chzsoft.de)

Hardware, Retrocomputing, Technology, Data Recovery

107 points by jnord 196 days ago | 30 comments

Agilent 2000a / 3000a Oscilloscope NAND Recovery (salvagedcircuitry.com)