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Subject: Re: How to recover data from dead hard drive.
From: "Frank Leonhardt (m)" <frank2@fjl.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:39:01 +0100
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>
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On 14 October 2017 20:49:26 BST, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

>
>
>> The lesson here is try the simple recover stuff first, especially if 
>> it's a Microsoft drive.
>
>The lesson is to never trust a system that you do not control.
>The lesson also is not to bet on pure luck. ;-)

Unsurprisingly, I agree with all that!

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