Comments on: Recover Data from a Damaged hard disk using dd_rhelp

By: san

san — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:05:47 +0000

i got a maxtor 80GB hard disk as my secondary data storage.its worked properly past 4 years. but now its not detected by computer.can any one say me how can i recover all data without any lost.please its urgent

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:39:24 +0000

Joe, Dave

Go to my harddrive died dot com putting all this together of course. Watch the videos, Scott Moulton is leading the industry in hardware data recovery. He explains how to do most data recoveries for under a 100$. I have personally followed his explanations and did platter swap, head swaps, pcb board swaps. In your case your plobably going to need to do a head swap. What ever you do don’t turn that HD on again, everytime you turn it on it is scratching more of your platters.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:31:40 +0000

I have a damaged Internal HDD (Maxtor SATA 500GB) When I check in vista I see Device I/O Error and it shows there is 0MB data stoted on it, and also I cannot see the partions I created before.
SO Can I use this way to back data?

By: joe b

joe b — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:20:31 +0000

my hard drive fell off my bed and when i connect it i hear this whirling or grinding noise on and off…..my mate says it will be the read/write heads is there anyway of retrieving the files as it no longer registers with my computer:( please help

By: VovkaS

VovkaS — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:01:28 +0000

sudo dd_rhelp /dev/sda1 – | ssh username@machineip ‘cat /datarecovery/backup.img’

sudo dd_rhelp /dev/sda1 – | ssh username@machineip cat > “/datarecovery/backup.img”

By: Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:27:55 +0000

Hi i keep getting the error message
Warning: “+number” syntax is deprecated, please use “-n +number”
and the output file is only 11.9mb big, when it’s copying from a 160gb drive!

I’m trying to copy from the hard drive dev/hdb (160gb ntfs) to media/Elements (500gb vfat external usb). I heard that vfat format could cause this to happen, any ideas how to get around it?

Cheers,

Kieran

By: Limbers

Limbers — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:57:09 +0000

Looks very good: however, can somebody point me in the right direction on the makefile? My (ubuntu) command is sudo make install and I’m having trouble:

robert@Humphrey:~/dd_rhelp-0.0.6$ sudo make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/robert/dd_rhelp-0.0.6′
test -z “/usr/local/bin” || mkdir -p — . “/usr/local/bin”
/usr/bin/install -c ‘dd_rhelp’ ‘/usr/local/bin/dd_rhelp’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am’.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/robert/dd_rhelp-0.0.6′

Funny! So I looked at the makefile and sure enough, install-data-am is an empty reference. How did you guys get past this??

Thanks
Limbers

By: Cal Janus

Cal Janus — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:56:34 +0000

Installed and used this script. It was amazing! You saved my boss, and of course me, a lot of stress Thanks for posting this!

Although I should add that I also tried to use this on a physically damaged drive, and it naturally couldn’t do anything. I had to contact a few hard drive repair companies, and finally got in touch with one that worked well. Everyone was trying like mad to have me ship my drive without a quote! It was like a feeding frenzy! Fortunately I came across a company called Hard Drive . Good site, and the guy in charge really knew his stuff.

I just thought I should mention this, because although dd_rhelp is really good, in cases of physically damaged hard drives, it won’t help much.

Cal Janus
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