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Recovering files from bad sectors
Name: Mendez Date: March 10, 2004 at 18:55:40 Pacific OS: xp maison CPU/Ram: 256/1 gig
Comment:
Hi what would be a good program for recovering files from a hard disk that has some bad sectors. I just want to recover the files that aren't affected by the bad sectors. Thank you have a good evening.
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