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rescuezilla/rescuezilla https://github.com/rescuezilla/rescuezilla
Thu 16 Mar 2023 04:57:59 PM PDT archive.org

Rescuezilla is an easy-to-use disk cloning and imaging application that's fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions. Yes, Rescuezilla is the Clonezilla GUI (graphical user interface) that you might have been looking for. But Rescuezilla is more than a Clonezilla GUI! Disk imaging is the process of making a backup of your computer's hard drive which is managed as files stored on an external hard drive, and 'disk cloning' is the process of making a direct copy without needing a third drive for temporary storage. For many people, the alternative open-source tools such as Clonezilla are intimidating and difficult to use, so Rescuezilla provides an easy-to-use graphical environment like the leading commercial tools, Acronis True Image and Macrium Reflect.

Rescuezilla can be booted on any PC or Mac from a USB stick, and has been carefully developed to be fully interoperable with the Clonezilla. This means Rescuezilla can restore backups created by Clonezilla, and backups created by Rescuezilla can be restored using Clonezilla!

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Floppy Disks https://www.floppydisk.com/
Thu 26 Jan 2023 07:04:05 PM PST archive.org

A company that sells NOS (new old stock) floppy disks and floppy drives. Mostly 3.5", some 5.25" and even 8". Still sealed and recycled disks. Can transfer stuff from floppy disks en masse as a service. They also buy lots of floppies.

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baruch/diskscan: Scan disk for bad or near failure sectors, performs disk diagnostics https://github.com/baruch/diskscan/
Sat 07 Mar 2020 01:14:52 PM PST archive.org

DiskScan is a Unix/Linux tool to scan a block device and check if there are unreadable sectors. In addition it uses read latency times as an assessment for a near failure as sectors that are problematic to read usually entail many retries (and bog the system down). This can be used to assess the state of the disk and maybe decide on a replacement in advance of its imminent failure. The disk self test may or may not pick up on such clues depending on the disk vendor decision making logic.

badblocks looks for fatal issues already happening and diskscan is for upcoming issues that can be fixed.

Also, badblocks is essentially obsolete in this day and age since the disks themselves will reallocate the data and there is no real need to map the bad blocks in the filesystem level anymore.

In the AUR. Works quite well, and sussed out a dying drive on Leandra.

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C64 Projects, Commodore 64, (c) Nicholas COPLIN http://www.64hdd.com/index_en.html
Mon 19 Mar 2018 08:20:54 PM PDT archive.org
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TestDisk - CGSecurity http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Mon 19 Mar 2018 08:10:54 PM PDT archive.org

A utility that lets you edit disks and recover data, including entire partitions. Supports multiple operating systems.

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Computer hardware poster 1.7 by *Sonic840 on deviantART http://sonic840.deviantart.com/art/Computer-hardware-poster-1-7-111402099
Mon 19 Mar 2018 06:51:54 PM PDT archive.org

A poster of every extant processor, socket, module, and jack in use by computers today. Comprehensive and impressive. You can even buy a print of it if you want.

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