Data Recovery Tools

I’m looking for some open source recovery tools, does anyone have any suggestions, can you also reference why you are suggesting said tool?

Recovery tools for delete files/folder or hdd that are broken? @WizardTux

Both, also with / without RAID.

TestDisk & PhotoRec (by Christophe Grenier)

I’ve had amazing results with this software. i recovered 3.5GB from a USB with partition issues. Hope this helps.

I’ve never use one, but i have a trick for those situation when one drive start to fell. You put the hhd in the fridge for few hours and then the hdd seem to read data that what not readable before. And you repeat this step a few time.

I would check the command/program ddrescue if i were you, it seem to do the trick pretty well. For raid it’s another lvl but some compagnie over the service to recover it soo there maybe a program out there,

Putting it in the fridge?!?!?! That seems a little unorthodox but if it works like kinda the coolest thing ever

This was in relation to a question posed to me by someone else (in a corporate setting) so I think they are looking for something more along the lines of something they can use on a regular basis for their drives and client drives.

Better instruction

1. Place the damaged hard drive inside of a ziploc freezer bag, so that no moisture gets in. (Use two or even three bags, and note that the bags do NOT need to be isotherm.)
2. Place the wrapped hard drive in the freezer
3. Leave the hard drive in the freezer for at least 12 hours
4. Then connect the drive to the computer and start copying dataAt some point, the hard drive will fail again.
5. When it does, redo the procedure until all data is copied or the drive dies.

From Source

Check online if you want detail about the explanation

I’m assuming the freezer idea would be last resort? Not sure a business would risk a drastic method as such. If the data is of utmost importance, most business’ would/should send the drive away to professionals for recovery.

If the drive works fine mechanically, software recovery is the way to go :slight_smile:

It was not for critical data, but for client external hdd or laptop hdd that are not on a warranty. and it work a few time…