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by eitland 2357 days ago
> Normally they shift all your data a few hundred megabytes later in the drive so they can use the area at the start to store their "drivers"

So, if I'm really lucky I can use testdisk to find the partitions and just mount it read only from there without involving a recovery company?
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londons_explore 2357 days ago
Yep. As soon as you find the sector number of the start of your data, you can use "losetup --offset xxxxx" to use it like a regular disk again. I think there are even SCSI commands you could send to permanently shift the start of the disk. Or you could just dd all your data back to where it ought to be.
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eitland 2357 days ago
I read a bit more and it seems some models has encryption mode (by default using an empty string for a password it seems.) There exist at least two projects to get data from those MyBooks so I'll try those if the simple version doesn't work.
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