More and more personal data is being deposited on hard disks and SSDs, in part due to the increasing capacity of low-cost, mass storage devices. The risk of data loss from servers, workplace computers, and notebooks increases along with the generation of ever larger amounts of information.

Loss can occur, for example, because of operation errors or hardware damage. Additionally, mandatory routine backups are not yet widespread enough in spite of the changing conditions in data management.

Once data has been lost, access is also lost to important text files, images, databases, and spreadsheets. At the point of loss, the only hope is to find a tool with the capability for reconstructing the maximum amount of data. SystemRescueCD is just such a tool, and it can provide invaluable assistance for Linux systems.

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