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HDD bad sector repair software?
fzabkar:
--- Quote from: magic on October 01, 2024, 04:30:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: Whales on October 01, 2024, 04:09:58 pm ---If a sector has so many failed bits that the error correcting code is useless, then there is nothing the drive can do to get your data back. At this point it reports a failed read to the OS. Your data is lost permanently. There is nothing that third party software can do here that the drive firmware has not already tried (and with much better insight into the disk's low level layout).
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If you care about the data, there is software which will keep retrying (even for weeks) and it helps in some cases.
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The only good DIY tools that I'm aware of are HDDSuperclone, OpenSuperClone (a fork of HDDSuperclone), and GNU ddrescue. These tools will recover all the easy sectors on the first pass and then try for the more difficult sectors on subsequent passes.
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