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Crashed Hard Drive Data Retrieval

I need data from a dell sc600 running 2003 server for an upgrade to 2008 r2.Old dell is so corrupt,backup is full of errors,so copying any files across network is unreliable.Ideas for getting data,including user files onto new machine?Thanks in advance.

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Quite simply, remove the drive, put it in a system that you know works (the PIV is old, and may be capacitor plague era - lets reduce variables), check the drive health with a suitable tool (smartmontools, or a drive specific maintenance tool) and run ddrescue to get as much data out as possible. I'd also recommend finding the most recent known good backups (you do have that don't you?) to try to fill in anything ddrescue can't find.

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