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Reflecting on a Post-ATI World

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Hi Paul, I found the same Restore - Files option too when I installed it on a very old Win 7 PC with a Pentium 4 CPU that I use for disk recovery operations (PATA & SATA).  So far no obvious downsides other than no mount option for the image files.

On the topic of disk recovery - I have been using an application called DDRescue-GUI which has been useful in getting data back from a failing Seagate 1TB SATA laptop drive that was giving dire warnings of imminent failure at boot time which the user had been ignoring for months!  There is a free version of DDRescue available for Linux systems but which requires a basic use of Linux command line operations to use. 

The DDRescue-GUI tool has been ported to Windows as well as available for Linux and I have been trying both flavours given the very reasonable low cost.  I decided in the end to run the tool on a dedicated Linux laptop running Zorin OS as the SATA disk was so bad as to cause BSOD's when running the tool on Windows 11 whereas Linux just 'shrugged' such issues off and allowed me to restart the recovery task!  DDRescue-GUI can be used to create disk images but by nature these are full size forensic copies the same size as the source disk drive.