Salvaging music from a broken hard disk
Using advanced tools to read music from a faulty disk
Oct. 15, 2020 - Willem L. Middelkoop
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal photos?
Continue reading![Connecting the disk to a SATA-to-USB convertor](/blog/2020-10-15_rescuing-photos-from-a-crashed-imac/images/i_07_Connecting-the-disk-to-a-SATA-to-USB-convertor_500px.jpg)
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![The hard disk inside the iMac - containing the personal photos](/blog/2020-10-15_rescuing-photos-from-a-crashed-imac/images/i_06_The-hard-disk-inside-the-iMac-containing-the-personal-photos_500px.jpg)
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