Just to add a bit about ddrescue. One of the more obscure things it does is read a drive backward to forward.
--mmiller On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Noah O'Donoghue <[email protected]> wrote: > I have had great success with ddrescue – > http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html > > > > Unlike Spinrite and HDD Regenerator, it doesn’t try and “make good” a > failing hard drive, instead, it first copies all the data it can get on the > first try, then retries the errored sectors many times until it recovers the > data, or you give up. It also keeps a log file so you can pause and resume > the recovery at any time. > > > > I usually use it from a linux livecd such as http://www.sysresccd.org > > > > The only caveat I would report is that it’s a good idea not to restore your > dd image to a file on an ntfs partition – Ntfs-3g and the likes will get > progressively slower if it is a big file. It is better to sector – by > sector restore to another hard disk, and keep the log file on a partition > on another disk. > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Webster > Sent: Monday, 15 March 2010 10:24 AM > To: 'PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List' > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] HDD(corrupted) data recovery help? > > > > This should do the trick. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm > > > > 80 bucks is better then thousands. > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Gibson > Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Pauldotcom] HDD(corrupted) data recovery help? > > > > So I just started having bad sectors in my WD external 1TB hdd and so I used > an excelent software by dmitry HDD Regenerator. It actually fixed all of the > bad sectors.I could read all the data but couldn't write to the hdd. SO I > did an advance RMA(They send you a new one before you send the old one > back). Few days later my new HDD arrived from WD but when I tried backing up > all my data was gone.. *poof* the hdd was completely corrupted. All my > windows computer detect it but does not populate it. I tried same (HDD > Regenerator) software and its shows 0mb in 0sectors available and doesn't > work. > > Do you have any forensics software which I could try to recover my data > before sending it back? > > Also I dont have any PII in it, but lot of personal collections which I > would love to recover. I don't to spend $$$ to send it to professional > recovery people. > > Thanks, > -W.Gibson. > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
