If your Tails becomes broken, for example, if it no longer starts, follow these instructions to recover data from your Persistent Storage.

Install Tails on a new USB stick onto which you want to recover your Persistent Storage. Make sure that this new USB stick is at least as large as the USB stick that has your broken Tails on it.

<p>Make sure that all applications are closed before continuing with these
instructions. Otherwise, the Persistent Storage might not be properly
recovered from your broken Tails.</p>

Try the technique using the [[*Disks* utility|fsck#disks]] first, then the
technique using [[`ddrescue`|fsck#ddrescue]] if needed.

Try the technique to [[copy the partition image to a new USB
stick|fsck#copy]] first, then the technique using
[[*Autopsy*|fsck#autopsy]].