Data Recovery for desktop and laptop hard drives

Data Recovery for desktop and laptop hard drives

TIG resources

External resources

In May 2010, the csail-related mailing list had a discussion of hard drive data recovery vendors, starting with this question. Brief summary:


  1. This page assumes the failing disk is a spinning hard disk. Solid State Disks have different failure modes and usually do not provide any warning signs between “no sign of trouble” and “zero bytes can be read”.<br /> ↩︎

  2. smartmontools, mount, dd, dd_rescue, ntfsclone, … ↩︎