HFultzjr
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- Central PA, USA
I've used ddrescue with manual commands and success before, but wanted to try something new.
I just used Pmagic with the ddrescue GUI.
Not nearly all the options, but worked for a laptop drive another shop said was dead.
Customer did not want to pay for professional recovery, but would pay a diagnostics fee to see if I could get anything.
Yes, I warned her about all the pitfalls of rookie data recovery and she said go for it.
Made a .img of the (C) partition with logfile and recovered 99.98%
Mounted .img within the ddrescue GUI and recovered all the files she needed.
Took about 40 hours of various runs, just let it sitting in the background grinding away.
Very happy NEW customer.
Has anybody else used the GUI version?
Very easy to use and seems to work well.
Suggest you give it a try on unimportant drives.
I just used Pmagic with the ddrescue GUI.
Not nearly all the options, but worked for a laptop drive another shop said was dead.
Customer did not want to pay for professional recovery, but would pay a diagnostics fee to see if I could get anything.
Yes, I warned her about all the pitfalls of rookie data recovery and she said go for it.
Made a .img of the (C) partition with logfile and recovered 99.98%
Mounted .img within the ddrescue GUI and recovered all the files she needed.
Took about 40 hours of various runs, just let it sitting in the background grinding away.
Very happy NEW customer.
Has anybody else used the GUI version?
Very easy to use and seems to work well.
Suggest you give it a try on unimportant drives.