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archerxtoday at 3:46 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s not true. I’ve had many computers that refuse to turn on and I was able to recover the files by removing the drive and loading it into a USB hard drive reader and recover the files.


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hiqtoday at 4:51 PM

I sure envy you if this qualifies as "catastrophic", because hard drive can and do fail.