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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: xxghostxx on Tue, 16 September 2014, 19:56:50
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like it says what data recovery software do you use? ;D
i have a HDD from a freeclick 1tb extarnal drive. i poped it open ,because i have not been able to find my cords for it for the past year. its being a pain, because it uses software to access the drive and its not formatted like windows drives so i thought i would ask you guys/girls. :))
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Can you try mounting in Linux? Maybe using a Linux recovery CD, like Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)?
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like it says what data recovery software do you use? ;D
i have a HDD from a freeclick 1tb extarnal drive. i poped it open ,because i have not been able to find my cords for it for the past year. its being a pain, because it uses software to access the drive and its not formatted like windows drives so i thought i would ask you guys/girls. :))
Depends.
Usually if it's just corrupt partition table, cgsecurity's testdisc will grab it. For deleted files, some ddrescue (or was it DD_rescue or gddrescue? I keep forgetting) can work well.
Apple's HFSplus stuff is a lot harder but is possible to mount and read files from in linux.
Live Linux distros I use are either slitaz or crunchbang, usually run in RAM.
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If the drive was encrypted, there are ways of recovering data from it that vary from being easy to impossible, depending. What "software" do you use to access it? I need some more info to be able to really help.
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gddrescue is the better of the two and ddrescue's package name is ddrescue. Command line is dd_rescue.
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Just buy a new cable. Wtf
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lol :)) i was just tinkering got what i needed and reformatted it already :p
i was just curious also what the community uses for there recovery situations.
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i usually use GetDataBack for recovery :
https://www.runtime.org/
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gddrescue is the better of the two and ddrescue's package name is ddrescue. Command line is dd_rescue.
I thought gddrescue was the debian package name of ddrescue, which was better than the older dd_rescue.
see here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29#Data_recovery).
Your experience may be different, but all the ones that I have used are all command-line. Maybe someone has made a GUI version recently?
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i usually use GetDataBack for recovery :
https://www.runtime.org/
How well does this usually work?
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gddrescue is the better of the two and ddrescue's package name is ddrescue. Command line is dd_rescue.
I thought gddrescue was the debian package name of ddrescue, which was better than the older dd_rescue.
see here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29#Data_recovery).
Your experience may be different, but all the ones that I have used are all command-line. Maybe someone has made a GUI version recently?
Derp, you're right dork. I think I got it mixed up in my head when I read your initial post. :-X
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i usually use GetDataBack for recovery :
https://www.runtime.org/
How well does this usually work?
I've used this for many years and have had good success with it. It does work much better than any of the free recovery Windows software I've tried. Even had some fair success recovering/reconstructing partially overwritten/corrupted data with it.
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For Windows, Recuva.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Works to recover both deleted files and files from a corrupt file system.
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i will be trying some of these in the future ;)
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For Windows, Recuva.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Works to recover both deleted files and files from a corrupt file system.
+1, used this the last time I had a corrupted flash drive and it recovered most files.
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For Windows, Recuva.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Works to recover both deleted files and files from a corrupt file system.
+1, used this the last time I had a corrupted flash drive and it recovered most files.
For corrupted flash drive, I strongly recommend cgsecurity's photorec. It will go over the entire drive many times looking for any sort of file or file fragment (by the headers and file structure) and find any deleted or corrupt stuff. Takes too long to run on a normal hard drive though.
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oldie but goodie - foremost