Lastly, a year ago, when trying to fix a non-working Windows update on my daughter's PC , I was asked to enter an external drive. I plugged in a USB drive and the computer erased everything to create some restore setup. That USB drive contained lots of backup information and it was lost.
After trying numerous tools, some extremely slow, I found this one: DMDE Express Edition. It was able to restore all files in a few minutes ! A $20 well spent !!

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Chromebook codenames vs. brand names; direct downloads to recovery images (?)

Use Tuxboot instead of UNetBootin to create USB live media from Windows. Instructions say to use Intel/PC for partition type, but for larger disks you will need to select EFI instead.

The dude was old. Like, older than Principal McMillan old. Like, probably remembered World War III old. And dirty. And with the look of the career offender about him. Exactly the sort of old codger dear mommy wouldn’t want him “associating” with. Accordingly, Jimmy Kirk picked this guy out of all of his current cellmates to strike up a conversation with.

“First time?” said the old man, without much interest.

“No,” Jimmy said, not sure whether to be proud or embarrassed about this not being his first time in police lockup overnight. “They kinda let me off with a warning the other times, though. I don’t think that’s the plan this time.” Despite himself, he hugged his knees and thought I wanna go home.

A rough, wrinkled hand patted his arm. “You can survive juvey, if you have to, trust me, I know. Best to avoid it, though. So, at your arraignment, you gotta give ‘em what they want.”

“Remorse?”

A snort. “Some of that, yup. But you can’t lay it on too thick. You also have to give them a healthy dose of what they expect. You can’t claim to have seen the errors of your ways overnight, they have to see you as someone who still needs work but who can be worked on. So you scuff your shoes against the carpet, you avoid eye contact or you glare, you keep your answers short and mulish. But you let them see that underneath you’re a good kid, someone worth saving. That make sense to you?”

Jimmy thought about it a while. “I think so. I think so.”