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HDD(corrupted) data recovery help?


From: noah.odonoghue at gmail.com (Noah O'Donoghue)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:02:45 +1100

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: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
[mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] 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: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
[mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of William Gibson
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:51 PM
To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
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.

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