Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

as an example, a directory under the root was corrupted (512 bytes weren't read), and this seemed to prevent it from a) showing up in a mount and even r-studio wasn't enumerting it correctly. so while ddru_ntfsfindbad is far from perfect, it was able to help me identify the blocks that defined the ...

while rstudio might be able to do all of what ddrescue can do, ddrescue has the main advantage that i can easily run it on a headless machine (i.e. just ssh in and image a disk)

R-Studio for Windows + RDP = a headless machine


yes (in a past life, I worked at MSFT on the RDP team), but in ...

in my case, right now, I'm working on recovering a 10+ year old archive disk that seems to have had what I'd classify as "magnetic bit rot". i.e. if it seems physically fine (no clicking, 99.9% of the disk has been read, all but about 15MB), but 2.5MB of what isn't read is in the MFT (inode 0, per ...

ah, you responded just when I was editing, see my last update. being able to output a domain mapfile from rstudio to target metadata (Say mft) or specific files, could be a massive win in consumer data recovery (at least for the technically incined)

while rstudio might be able to do all of what ...

It doesn't seem like r-studio can make use of ddrescue's map file. This could be useful for letting a user have confidence that data was recovered fully from a disc imaged with ddrescue.

ddrescue's map file would tell you if a block was read or not (if the all 0s in the file block on the file ...