It’s always good to keep HOWTO guides like this around.

“Killed a hard drive without backing up? This guide helps you recover the data ” (link via Lockergnome)

Of course you can never find them when you need’em because the system you bookmarked the guide is the one that’s dead. So I’ll just post it here :-)

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