"Mounting" and "Unmounting" Devices

You might have heard these terms before if you use Linux or macOS. If you have a partition with a file system, you need to "mount" it to make it usable. You could think of it like opening a book, I guess: All the information is there in the book, but you need to open it before you can read it. In Windows, mounted devices get drive letters like C:. In Linux and macOS, mounted devices are given a folder where they can be accessed, like "/media/data", for example. When you're finished with a drive, you should unmount it, which is usually done when you shut down your computer.

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DDRescue-GUI cannot yet mount output files on Windows, but there are a variety of other tools available to do this for you.