Repair attempts are not always benign

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Andy's laptop is trapped at a recovery screen with unbacked-up data. Dr. Dave refuses to guess from one symptom and warns that attempts to repair a drive are not automatically harmless: before trying more, determine whether the failure is in Windows, a partition, recovery software or the hardware itself, because the wrong step can erase what remains.

3:16 · Consulting Philosophy

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