Posts by ISeeTWizard

Hier habe ich mal ein Tutorial erstellt wie man seinen Bind 9 Server per PowerShell aktualisieren kann zwecks DDNS Möglichkeit.

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Ein kleines Retro Video mit Windows Vista Ultimate in der heutigen Zeit 🙂

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Ein kleines Retro Video mit Windows XP MCE in der heutigen Zeit 🙂

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Ein kleines Retro Video mit Windows ME in der heutigen Zeit.

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Ein kleines Retro Video mit Windows 98SE in der heutigen Zeit 🙂

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Ein kleines Retro Video mit DOS 6.22 und Windows 3.11 in der heutigen Zeit 🙂

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Meine Internet und Sicherheit Schulung fange ich mit dem Thema SPAM, Phishing und co. an...

Ich hoffe ich kann Ihnen mit diesem Video etwas behilflich sein...

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Ich hatte vor einiger Zeit einen kranken Patienten in meiner Werkstatt und ich dachte das ich davon auch mal wieder ein Video drehen könnte.

Das Resultat seht Ihr hier und ja der Rechner funktioniert noch - Da Private Daten auf diesem Rechner sind habe ich nicht gezeigt wie er anspringt usw.
Aber alles läuft und das Klonen auf eine neue SSD hat einwandfrei funktioniert.
Nur die Grafikkarte ist etwas wacklig, funktioniert aber auch noch immer.

Übrigens das neue Gehäuse ist ein Sharkoon TG4 ATX

Zur Zeit als ich dies schrieb liefen gerade noch ein paar Updates und dann ging es zurück zum Eigentümer…

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Dieses Video ist zwar mittlerweile etwas älter am man kann es immer noch als Beispiel nehmen wie man einen Rechner zusammenbaut.

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Weiter geht's im dritten Teil mit dem Windows Explorer.

Hier gehen wir im Detail auf den Windows Explorer ein. Aber Achtung - hier in diesem Video handelt es sich noch um den Windows 10 Explorer. Der unter Windows 11 sieht wesentlich anders aus und wird noch mal in einem weiteren Video thematisiert.

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Hier zeige ich euch einige sehr nützliche Tools die wir früher oder später in anderen Videos sehen werden.

Hier gibt es nur eine schnelle grobe Übersicht.

Microsoft PowerToys

GitHub - microsoft/PowerToys: Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks

Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks - microsoft/PowerToys

github.com

Remove Empty Directories

Jam Software Tree Size Free

TreeSize – Official Download

TreeSize is a disk space analyzer for Windows with customizable file search and several exporting and reporting possibilities. Download for free today!

www.jam-software.com

Advanced Renamer
Download for Windows and Mac - Advanced Renamer

Amok Exif Sorter
https://www.amok.am/en/freeware/amok_exif_sorter/download

FreeFileSync

BleachBit
Windows" data-unfurl-url-id="14">https://www.bleachbit.org/download/ Windows

Speccy
https://www.ccleaner.com/de-de/speccy
WICHTIG: CCLEANER selbst NICHT benutzen!!!! NEVER!!! NIEMALS!!!

Bulk Crap Uninstaller
https://www.bcuninstaller.com

Notepad++
Downloads | Notepad++

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein

Hier geht es nur um Grundwissen zu Windows .

Das Video ist hauptsächlich für Personen die quasi 0 Ahnung respektive Erfahrung mit Windows hatten gedacht. Es wird auch nichts in extremen Details gezeigt da dieses in getrennten Videos später hinzukommen wird.

Da dieses YouTube Video auf Deutsch ist wird der Begleittext in der selben Sprache sein.

Damit Ihr das ganze nachvollziehen könnt hier noch der Link zum Tool auf GitHub: https://github.com/AveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat

I bought during my visit in the museums a brick construction site and I recorded myself during the construction of my Brutus car 🙂

A small refreshed video for 2025 about creating a new personalised profile for PowerShell.

Here is also the written guide:

First check that you have Terminal installed and PowerShell 7.x - pay attention to better user the latest version and not the pre release version.

Open a PowerShell window as administrator and change to your download folder and install the latest Terminal version.

cd c:\users\username\Downloads
Add-AppPackage -path .\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_1.23.13503.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle

Then, for the PowerShell version, you can download the msi file and simply install it by double clicking on it and follow the instructions.

Installing Chocolatey

Check out their website for further instructions.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Basic Terminal Settings

Open now Terminal and go here into the settings and put PowerShell (the one with the black icon) as default - normally Windows PowerShell (the own with the blue icon is by default) - don't forget to save.

Now reopen Terminal and you should see that PowerShell 7.x is now used.

Reopen the settings and swap to the Appearance Tab and look for the option "use acrylic material in the tab row" and turn that one on.

Swap now to the Color schemes tab and choose here the "One Half Dark" Theme. Here take the option to make a copy of this theme so we can adapt it for our needs.
Simply then scroll down on the page and choose "rename color scheme" and type in your wanted name.

Now we are changing the default settings under the "defaults" tab.
Navigate to "Appearance" and choose under "color scheme" the one you just created/copied. Here you would also change the font but this will be done later after we installed the correct fonts.
Scroll down on that tab until you reach the transparency header where you can also find an option to enable acrylic material which of course you are doing. But here you need to pay attention to move the slider for the "background opacity" to as example 50%.
As I prefer another background color we are going to change this one to but for that you need to open the JSON file (button at the bottom left of the Terminal window).
Search here for the profiles section and look for your profile name you have chosen earlier on. Look than for the "background" part and enter the new color as a hex value - #001B26

Here my file as example:

{
    "$help": "https://aka.ms/terminal-documentation",
    "$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",
    "actions": [],
    "copyFormatting": "none",
    "copyOnSelect": false,
    "defaultProfile": "{574e775e-4f2a-5b96-ac1e-a2962a402336}",
    "keybindings": 
    [
        {
            "id": "Terminal.CopyToClipboard",
            "keys": "ctrl+c"
        },
        {
            "id": "Terminal.FindText",
            "keys": "ctrl+shift+f"
        },
        {
            "id": "Terminal.PasteFromClipboard",
            "keys": "ctrl+v"
        },
        {
            "id": "Terminal.DuplicatePaneAuto",
            "keys": "alt+shift+d"
        }
    ],
    "newTabMenu": 
    [
        {
            "type": "remainingProfiles"
        }
    ],
    "profiles": 
    {
        "defaults": 
        {
            "colorScheme": "ISeeTWizard",
            "font": 
            {
                "face": "MesloLGM Nerd Font"
            },
            "opacity": 50,
            "useAcrylic": true
        },
        "list": 
        [
            {
                "commandline": "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
                "guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Windows PowerShell"
            },
            {
                "commandline": "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\cmd.exe",
                "guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Eingabeaufforderung"
            },
            {
                "guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989-0a998ec441b8}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Azure Cloud Shell",
                "source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure"
            },
            {
                "guid": "{574e775e-4f2a-5b96-ac1e-a2962a402336}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "PowerShell",
                "opacity": 50,
                "source": "Windows.Terminal.PowershellCore"
            },
            {
                "guid": "{2ece5bfe-50ed-5f3a-ab87-5cd4baafed2b}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Git Bash",
                "source": "Git"
            }
        ]
    },
    "schemes": 
    [
        {
            "background": "#001B26",
            "black": "#282C34",
            "blue": "#61AFEF",
            "brightBlack": "#5A6374",
            "brightBlue": "#61AFEF",
            "brightCyan": "#56B6C2",
            "brightGreen": "#98C379",
            "brightPurple": "#C678DD",
            "brightRed": "#E06C75",
            "brightWhite": "#DCDFE4",
            "brightYellow": "#E5C07B",
            "cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
            "cyan": "#56B6C2",
            "foreground": "#DCDFE4",
            "green": "#98C379",
            "name": "ISeeTWizard",
            "purple": "#C678DD",
            "red": "#E06C75",
            "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
            "white": "#DCDFE4",
            "yellow": "#E5C07B"
        }
    ],
    "themes": [],
    "useAcrylicInTabRow": true
}

Save the file and close the Terminal window and reopen it.

Installing different tools

#Change Execution Policy
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser

#Install Scoop
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

#Install curl sudo and jq
scoop install curl sudo jq

#Test curl - answer should be ok
curl 'https://api.inkdrop.app/' | jq .

#Install Git
winget install -e --id Git.Git

#Install neovim and gcc
scoop install neovim gcc

#Test nvim by simply entering nvim and see if it opens - with :q you close nvim again

#Create a working directoy und your username
mkdir .config/PowerShell

#Edit the user profile PowerShell script file
nvim .config/powershell/user_profile.ps1

If you miss any runtime for example for neovim you can download this AiO package from here ans install it.

Here is the full user_profile.ps1 file - you'll get errors if you directly copy/paste everything in it and not step by step like in the video. But you can ignore those errors - it's just easier for debugging if you run into an error if you move on step by step.

#Load Modules
Import-Module -Name Terminal-Icons

#Load Aliases
Set-Alias -Name vim -Value nvim
Set-Alias ll ls
Set-Alias g git
Set-Alias grep findstr
Set-Alias tig 'C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\tig.exe'
Set-Alias less 'C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\less.exe'

#Set Prompt
oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$HOME\.config\PowerShell\config.omp.json"  | Invoke-Expression

# PSReadLine
Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Emacs
Set-PSReadLineOption -BellStyle None
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord 'Ctrl+d' -Function DeleteChar
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionViewStyle ListView

# Fzf
Import-Module PSFzf
Set-PsFzfOption -PSReadlineChordProvider 'Ctrl+f' -PSReadlineChordReverseHistory 'Ctrl+r'

# Env
$env:GIT_SSH = "C:\Windows\system32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe"

# Utilities
function which ($command) {
  Get-Command -Name $command -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty Path -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

:wq is used to quit nvim and save the file!

#Edit the default PowerShell profile file
nvim $PROFILE.CurrentUserAllHosts

#Text to enter in that file - load our personal PowerShell profile script file - pay attention to upercase text as it is case sensitive!
$env:USERPROFILE\.config\powershell\user_profile.ps1

#Install Oh My Posh - After Installing restart the Terminal window
winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh --source winget

#Install the Nerd Fonts - Show List
oh-my-posh font install

#Install the Meslo Nerd Fonts - Example
oh-my-posh font install meslo

Here is the link to their site to find more information.

For the Font I use by default the MesloLGM Nerd Font - change this in the Terminal settings like mentioned earlier (already set in my example JSON file.

Oh My Posh Configuration

nvim .config/powershell/config.omp.json

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "type": "prompt",
      "alignment": "left",
      "segments": [
        {
          "properties": {
            "cache_duration": "none"
          },
          "leading_diamond": "\u256d\u2500\ue0b6",
          "template": " {{ .Name }} ",
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "background": "#0077c2",
          "type": "shell",
          "style": "diamond"
        },
        {
          "properties": {
            "cache_duration": "none",
            "root_icon": "\uf292"
          },
          "template": "<parentBackground>\ue0b0</> \uf0e7 ",
          "foreground": "#FFFB38",
          "background": "#ef5350",
          "type": "root",
          "style": "diamond"
        },
        {
          "properties": {
            "cache_duration": "none",
            "style": "full"
          },
          "template": " {{ .Path }} ",
          "foreground": "#E4E4E4",
          "powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
          "background": "#444444",
          "type": "path",
          "style": "powerline"
        },
        {
          "properties": {
            "branch_icon": "\ue725 ",
            "cache_duration": "none",
            "fetch_status": true,
            "fetch_upstream_icon": true
          },
          "template": " {{ .HEAD }} {{ if .Working.Changed }}{{ .Working.String }}{{ end }}{{ if and (.Working.Changed) (.Staging.Changed) }} |{{ end }}{{ if .Staging.Changed }}<#ef5350> \uf046 {{ .Staging.String }}</>{{ end }} ",
          "foreground": "#011627",
          "powerline_symbol": "\ue0b0",
          "background": "#FFFB38",
          "type": "git",
          "style": "powerline",
          "background_templates": [
            "{{ if or (.Working.Changed) (.Staging.Changed) }}#ffeb95{{ end }}",
            "{{ if and (gt .Ahead 0) (gt .Behind 0) }}#c5e478{{ end }}",
            "{{ if gt .Ahead 0 }}#C792EA{{ end }}",
            "{{ if gt .Behind 0 }}#C792EA{{ end }}"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "prompt",
      "alignment": "right",
      "segments": [
        {
          "properties": {
            "cache_duration": "none",
            "fetch_package_manager": true,
            "npm_icon": " <#cc3a3a>\ue5fa</> ",
            "yarn_icon": " <#348cba>\uf61a</>"
          },
          "leading_diamond": " \ue0b6",
          "trailing_diamond": "\ue0b4",
          "template": "\ue718 {{ if .PackageManagerIcon }}{{ .PackageManagerIcon }} {{ end }}{{ .Full }}",
          "foreground": "#3C873A",
          "background": "#303030",
          "type": "node",
          "style": "diamond"
        },
        {
          "properties": {
            "cache_duration": "none"
          },
          "leading_diamond": " \ue0b6",
          "trailing_diamond": "\ue0b4",
          "template": " \uf073 {{ .CurrentDate | date .Format }} ",
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "background": "#40c4ff",
          "type": "time",
          "style": "diamond",
          "invert_powerline": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "prompt",
      "alignment": "left",
      "segments": [
        {
          "properties": {
            "cache_duration": "none"
          },
          "template": "\u2570\u2500",
          "foreground": "#21c7c7",
          "type": "text",
          "style": "plain"
        },
        {
          "properties": {
            "always_enabled": true,
            "cache_duration": "none"
          },
          "template": "❯{{ if gt .Code 0 }}\uf00d{{ else }}\uf42e{{ end }} ",
          "foreground": "#e0f8ff",
          "type": "exit",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground_templates": [
            "{{ if gt .Code 0 }}#ef5350{{ end }}"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "newline": true
    }
  ],
  "version": 3
}

That is the complete JSON file for Oh My Posh.

Install the rest of the maybe once needed tools

#Install nvm
scoop install nvm

#Install the current Node version
nvm install 24.12.0
nvm use 24.12.0

#Install the Terminal Icons
Install-Module -Name Terminal-Icons -Repository PSGallery -Force

#Install z
Install-Module -Name z -Force

#Install PSReadLine
Install-Module -Name PSReadLine

#Install fzf
scoop install fzf
Install-Module -Name PSFzf -Scope CurrentUser -Force

Please check here what the current LTS node version is.

We visited Taunus Wunderland in Germany on 02/09/2024 and we got very disappointed. We even got stuck in a game (flight simulator) as most of the park is very very old (and just oh sorry for the longer wait for quiting the game pff...). The new part of the Parc has a great roller coaster but only for thin people - never had that issue in any other park. Also many things (shops, games, etc) were closed and no ambient audio. As the school in Germany already started when we went to the park not many people were present and so no waiting time...

PS: after reviewing the video I saw that portrait photos didn‘t take over the effects of my landscape photos very well and so got to much cropped - for the next video I now know it and won‘t do the same mistake

Here the link to the park on my project Parcum

In resume: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PARC - THEY EVEN LET REMOVE GOOGLE RATINGS IF THEY ARE BAD

We visited Mainz (Germany) on 01.09.2024.

Here are some impressions of our visit without interrupting bla bla bla.

In general we can say: A city to visit - it's simply great.

On 01.09.2025 we went on a day trip to Blankenberge and Brugge. Here are our photos from there (so also some photos from us are included).

On 07.09.2025 we went on a day trip to check the Technology Museums in Sinsheim and Speyer (Germany) and here are our photos (without filtering out the photos where we are present on it).

Most of the time you can find devices with IP65 certified but also sometimes there is a letter at the end.
As I had search often to know what means what I've done now this table here:

Optional letters at the end

In case of a data breach, ransomware attack or similar there are some steps to follow

Step 1

A cyber attack can certainly be classified as a disaster scenario and a clear mind is needed to navigate to a solution. Oncey you and your team adopt a problem solving attitude you will be able to respond to the breach in a logical and organized way.

The main point is "DON'T PANIC"

Step 2

If a cyber attacker demands a ransom it may be tempting and easier to pay it to regain control of your network but oftem times it may lead to future attacks so "DO NOT PAY A RANSOM".

I would say just pay a ransom if there is no other way to recovery your data but if you don't have any secured backup I have no pity for you!

You could also invest in an Endpoint Detection and Response solution that can stop ransomware before it can be executed.

Step 3

Now it's time to form a response team as to address any damage caused by the cyber attack you will need a capable and experienced response team. You team should be comprised of IT staff members either contracted or in-house who will investigate the attack and work to resolve it.

HR should be included if your employees haved been impacted by the attack. Public Relations representatives should be included to best explain the attack to your customers. Always includ legal counsel since breaches can have a number of legal implications.

Step 4

So let's see your backup which is hopefully available and undamaged from the attack (that is why offline backups are often very important). If this is the case switch to them immediately. The biggest reason this step fails is because it is often forgoten to test the data restoration process.

If you don't have any backup solution like I wrote I have no pity for you! Avoid switching off all your servers and workstations even if it's a good temptation but this won't stop or fix your damage.

Step 5

If your organization is hit with a cyber breach, it is imperative that you minimize the number of affected systems. You will need to isolate where the breach occurred and stop it from infecting other systems. Once the breach has been suspended you response team can test other portions of the network to see if they have been compromised as well.

Step 6

Now it is time to investigate. Upon investigation you may find that the damage affects numerous portions of your organization. HR response team members will need to be address any impact on your employees. If your customers or the public were affected PR staff will need to control the damage done to your reputation. The attack may even cause legal ramifications and as such your business's lawyers may need to be involved.

Step 7

After all that you should also contact your clients. The PR memebrs on your response team need to reach out to call clients who have been impacted by the breach as soon as possible. For security purposes your clients may need to change their passwords and/or PIN numbers if their private information was compromized.

Step 8

As your response team is investigating the attack ensure that they are documenting both their process and their findings. From this evidence you will be able to ascertain the vulnerability that allowed the attack to be successful and thus fortify it going forward.

Step 9

As last step I think it's sure that you are looking to prevent future attacks.

If your team is unable to effectively secure your organization's IT you may need to partner with an outside cyber security company. Outsourcing your cyber security needs to an Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) can be cheaper and the are often more effective than most IT teams.

In IT there are so many authentication options. Here are the 10 commonly used ones.

We once had an issue to recover data from a broken disk. Under Windows the disk was directly "attacked" and so directly the control over it was lost.

Same was with Windows PE Boot Sticks to recover data.

So the only option left was Linux and here is how we did.

First you need some tools you can download from the links below:

http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Download
https://rufus.ie or https://www.balena.io/etcher

1. Put the ISO on an USB Stick with Rufus (preferred) or Etcher
2. Boot from Stick (deactivate Secure Boot) without connecting any external device (makes it easier to find the correct devices later)
3. During the Boot process choose the default option (the first from the 2 options)
4. When the boot process is finished you may want to change your keyboard layout. You can do this with the setkmap tool.
   Simply type setkmap at the prompt and then choose your keyboard layout from the list (fr_CH as example) and click OK.
5. You can also start a graphical interface with startx but this is not needed to recover data. Within the graphical interface you can use FireFox, Partition Manager or FeatherPad (TextEditor)
6. Connect your source drive (the defective one) and search for this device with
   ls -la /dev/sdc (where sdc may vary depending on what dev your device was mapped – so it could be sdc / sdd / sde etc.)
   If you have chosen the wrong one you’ll get an error saying that no such file or directory was found.
   PS: With lsblk you should be able to see what disk is mounted under what /dev/

7. Now you can mount this device to check where the data is:

   • First create a folder in the mnt folder - do this with the following commands
     cd / (to get to the root folder)
     cd mnt (change directory to /mnt)
     mkdir source (take source as name as this is easier to find yourself back)

   
   

   • After creating the directory we can now mount the device (stay within the mnt folder)
     mount /dev/sdc2 ./source or mount /dev/sdc2 /mnt/source
     We use the number 2 as most of the time there are more partition created under Windows and 1 would be the hidden boot partition and 2 the first data partition
     That is also why we first mount the device to see if we are on the correct partition.

   
   

   • You can list what’s on your disk with (always while staying in mnt folder)
     ls -l ./source or ls -l /mnt/source

   
   

   • If you are on the wrong partition you have to unmount the device and restart with point b
     umount /mnt/source (for unmounting the source device)

   
   

   • if you can't mount due to an unclean NTFS file system you may try this (example):
     sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdc2
     sudo mount -o rw /dev/sdc2 /mnt/source

     
     

8. When you have your source device you connect your destination device to copy the data too. Important here is that you use a device formatted with NTFS as we are going to first create an image of the source disk on that disk which will be more than 4GB (FAT32 only supports files of max 4GB).
   Also here you have to do the same as for the source drive, just name the folder destination (point 7 and and as it is a NTFS partition the normal mount wouldn’t work so you have to take
   ntfs-3g to mount the device
   ntfs-3g /dev/sdd2 ./destination
9. When your destination disk is mounted switch to that folder so that you are in /mnt/destination
   This is important for the following command as we want to create a map file directly on that disk to be able to resume the recovery in case of a crash
10. For the recovery process we are going to use ddrescue. Here are some switches that may be needed:
    -f force
    -d direct disk access (slower but doesn’t use the kernel cache)
    with that method you can sometimes even recover more data as with the normal method
    not every system is supporting this
    -r3 retry 3 times (you can change the numer)
    -N skip the trimming phase
    We are using the following command for the first run (here we are recovering the most readable data)
    ddrescue -d /mnt/source /mnt/destination/data.img mapfile
    with that we copy the sdc2 partition in an data.img file on the destination disk and the mapfile is used if the recover crashes or so to not start from scrap.
    Also the mapfile is used for the second scan. Without switches we simply copy the data and when a sector has issues with reading ddrescue is skippin it and continuing with the next one without any retries.
    Now with the second scan we are going to use the -r switch to recover even more data. It is important to use the same mapfile as before
    ddrescue -d -r3 /mnt/source /mnt/destination/data.img mapfile
    You could also use this command directly but depending on the disk state you may lose all the data.
11. After the copy is finished (about 10 hours for 1TB disk) you have an entire img file of your source disk.
    Here you may want to copy it as when you are going to mount this file you are going to make changes on it.
12. Create an olddisk folder under /mnt
    mkdir olddisk (when you are under the mnt folder)
13. Now mount the image file an create the folder for the recovered data
    mount /mnt/destination/data.img /mnt/olddisk
    mkdir /mnt/destination/recovery
14. Than copy the data to the destination disk in a new folder
    cp -R /mnt/olddisk/ /mnt/destination/recovery/
    Pay attention that this also takes hours
15. When all the data is copied you can unmount all the devices
    umount /mnt/olddisk
    umount /mnt/destination
    umount /mnt/source
16. Now shutdown the computer
    shutdown -h now
17. Check on a Windows PC if you have access to the data

I hope this can help you if you ever have such an issue. I also had a personal SSD that wasn't accessible over Windows anymore but mounting it over an USB adapter on my Synology NAS, which is also Linux, helped me out and I could recover the data. It wasn't important data, as I have backups for everything, but I spend during some days collecting different download etc. for a project and so I didn't need to redownload everything lol 🙂 And there was an old Windows 95 game I patched to make it run on Windows 10 🙂

PS: If I ever make a video I gonna attach it - maybe you can leave a comment and tell me if you want a how to video from me.

If you ever had this question here is a link with the answer to it 😉

Mac OS Compatibility Guide by Mac Model

eshop.macsales.com

Pay attention that this is an external link and that I'm not affiliated to it.

Synology DSM is actually based on a simple Linux system and therefore the standard commands can be used there. That's why you can easily get the IDs you will need for many containers thanks to the easy command named ID.

Attention: The video is still in german