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The drive was in a corrupt state the first time it got unplugged. And it's nothing to shrug off, it might have been in the middle of rewriting a directory and lose all the contents.

So what are the odds that A) you get it back into a non-corrupt state B) the sectors affected by finishing the write will re-corrupt it C) you do this in one minute?




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