HDD(corrupted) data recovery help?

[mike.mikemiller at gmail.com (Michael Miller)]

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
<noah.odonoghue at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had great success with ddrescue ?
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
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> 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.
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> I usually use it from a linux livecd such as http://www.sysresccd.org
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> 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.
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> From: pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com
> [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Scott Webster
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> This should do the trick. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
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> 80 bucks is better then thousands.
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> [mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of William Gibson
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> 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.
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> Do you have any forensics software which I could try to recover my data
> before sending it back?
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> -W.Gibson.
>
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