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[angoul]

Presentation
I'm running because I didn't do this.
I am a computer maintenance technician in France and I am 52 years old. I also do digitization of old video.
I'm interested in data recovery, but frankly I don't know much about it.
So forgive me if I ask a lot of questions and if I don't understand all at once because of my age (lol).
I'm open to any training, advice, proposal to help me learn.
I don't master English, but I use translators who help me a lot.

Thanks to you

[pclab]

There are already many posts out there about this.
What do you want to start doing?

[RolandJS]

I suggest practicing what I call "first responder data recovery" stuff at the beginning. In short, what should one do when it is discovered one's data is going to be lost or is slowing being lost or suddenly all appears lost?
Many first attempt harddrive diagnostics scanning and repair. What should happen first:
-- The immediate cloning of problem source HD onto any reliable external media, with "single-sector-single-pass", no multi-read attempts.
and/or
-- The immediate making of full images of OS and data partitions onto reliable external media, with "single-sector-single-pass", no multi-read attempts.
and/or
-- At the very least, data folders and data files being copied onto reliable external media.
Much of this DIY "first responder" stuff is best done with pre-made, pre-tested DVD and USB boot material -- at the ready when needed.
Then, after whatever backups can be made are made, then comes HD diagnostics.
All of the above is my opinion, gathered from reading a couple of data recovery web sites, two of which are Recovery Force and Data Medics data recovery companies. And quite often, if HD is immediately shipped to a DR place, recovery success is much better, and the cost is less.