How to recover data from dead hard drive.

[Frank Leonhardt (m)]

Good list that. ddrescue is, IME, the place to start. Or have I confused it with dd_rescue again :-)

But what do you mean by dead? If its not spinning or not recognized by the system as existing, you'll get nowhere with software. I transplant the platters to a new IDENTICAL drive mechanism and work from that. You can by an identical drive from companies who stock samples them "just in case". Unsurprisingly, they're not cheap. And transferring platters is not easy.

I also have some expensive licensed software for recovering incomplete file systems, and charge Windows users like a wounded rhinoceros when they need their data back.


On 9 October 2017 18:14:35 BST, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:27:51 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>> A while back I remember reading a post giving the steps and software
>to 
>> use to recover data from a dead H.D.
>
>Last time it appeared:
>
>Subject: Re: Recovering data from a broken HDD
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:17:47 +0200
>
>
>
>> Could that be reposted again.
>
>Sure. :-)
>
>System:
>	dd
>	fsck_ffs
>	clri
>	fsdb
>	fetch -rR <device>
>	recoverdisk
>
>Ports:
>	ddrescue
>	dd_rescue
>	ffs2recov
>	magicrescue
>	testdisk
>	The Sleuth Kit:
>		fls
>		dls
>		ils
>		autopsy
>	scan_ffs
>	recoverjpeg
>	foremost
>	photorec
>	fatback
>
>Proprietary (free test version for diagnostics):
>
>	SysDev Laboratories LLC "UFS Explorer"
>
>Most tools require you to know what you're doing, so learning
>how to use those tools appears to be mandatory. As I said, work
>with (a copy of) the copy of the disk if possible, so in worst
>case you can start from the beginning without feeling guilty
>that you did something wrong. ;-)
>
>
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