ddrescue!

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package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, `cron` jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including: * Can resume aborted downloads, using `REST` and `RANGE` * Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories * NLS-based message files for many different languages * Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally * Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft

ddrescue alternatives

  • TestDisk

  • TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

    tags: bootable data-recovery disk-recovery dyn-disk-convert hard-disk-utility
  • PhotoRec

  • PhotoRec, companion program to TestDisk , is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your medias filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.

    tags: data-recovery digital-media-recovery file-recovery intelligent-recovery photo-recovery
  • Foremost

  • Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc, or directly on a drive. The headers and footers can be specified by a configuration file or you can use command line switches to specify built-in file types. These built-in types look at the data structures of a given file format allowing for a more reliable and faster recovery. »

    tags: file-recovery recover-deleted-files recovering
  • HDD Raw Copy Tool

  • HDD Raw Copy tool makes an exact duplicate of a SATA, IDE, SAS, SCSI or SSD hard disk drive. Will also work with any USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures as well as SD, MMC, MemoryStick and CompactFlash media.

    tags: harddrive hard-drive-recovery data-recovery hdd-copy harddisk-recovery
  • OnTrack EasyRecovery

  • File Recovery and Repair software for data loss, data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostics. EasyRecovery repairs and restores lost data.

    tags: data-recovery file-recovery repair-files
  • Scalpel 2.0

  • Scalpel-2.0 - Scalpel; File Carving. Configuration files are modified.

    tags: recover-deleted-files file-carving
  • 4Card Recovery

  • Memory card recovery software to restore lost files and photos from SD, XD, CF card after deleting, formatting, not formatted error, raw file system error, factory resetting, etc. from ANY kind of card/USB.It supports all types of memory card including SD card, mini SD card, micro SD card, SDHC, MMC, XD card, CF card, memory stick etc from 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB to 64 GB.It enables you to restore data from other storage devices including digital camera, mobile phone, hard drive, flash drive, etc. »

    tags: recover-deleted-files recover-lost-files
  • safecopy - Data Recovery

  • safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, hard disk partitions, CDs, tape devices, ..., where other tools like dd would fail due to I/O error

    tags: data-recovery
  • FlashPhoenix Photo Recovery

  • FlashPhoenix is a data recovery tool for various flash cards (SmartMedia , CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card Flash Card, PC Card, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card, etc) and digital camera memory. It can effectively recover corrupted or lost data from formatted, damaged, unreadable or defective storage media.

    tags: data-recovery photo-recovery
  • Scannerz

  • Scannerz for Mac OS X is a set of tools designed to help you identify and solve hardware and software problems on your system. The package consists of Scannerz, Performance Probe 2, FSE or FSE-Lite, and Phoenix. We also have a basic package named Scannerz Lite which is a simplified version of Scannerz and will be described later.

    tags: data-recovery disk-recovery file-recovery hard-drive-recovery partition-recovery