Short-Circuited External Disk Recovery
How I tried (and failed) to recover an external hard drive that failed after a lightning storm.
Forensics
Imaging Bad Hard Drives (with a Synology NAS)
How to image a hard disk with bad sectors to a disk image file with `ddrescue`, even if some sectors have I/O errors reading the data.
Booting Linux from CD, in 2022
Yes, "CD", not USB, not network-boot, not DVD.
TL;DR
Ubuntu Oneiric ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso
[http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/], at 695MB, is the newest
32-bit graphical Ubuntu live image