alfarom wrote:
Just downloaded and installed the latest update.
I'm working my way through the videos at the moment. They are really helpful. One thing. You seem to prefer DMDE over R-Studio for data extraction now. What advantages does it give over R-Studio. Also, have you tried just using DMDE without HDDSuperClone first to compare the recovery success for each?
Thanks...
I am almost certain I replied to this yesterday, but the post does not exist?
Good thing I saved it before posting, something I have learned over time...
The primary reason I recommend DMDE over R-Studio with the HDDSuperClone virtual disk driver is that it works better on the actual live recovery. The author of DMDE designed it to work with actual drives, so it works better at the sector level. As far as I can tell, R-Studio only reads down to 8 sector chunks, which means that a bad sector is going to be 8 bad sectors to R-Studio. This greatly affected the results my test recovery where I compared them.
If you watch the video where I compare them, at the end I say that if it was a recovery of a fully imaged drive, then R-Studio would likely perform just as well, possibly even better, but not saying it would do better.
A smart person could figure out that if you turn off the I/O errors in HDDSuperClone in the advanced settings (change it to marking for best results), then R-Studio would probably work as good. But then the only way to find files with errors would be to use the marking feature, and then search all the files for the marking pattern. Things could be complicated if you don’t know what you are doing.
A second reason that DMDE is better is that you can get a list of the sectors for the files you wish to recover, import it and then run HDDSuperClone to clone/image only the selected area. This is better because it recovers sequentially instead of jumping around to each file.
A third reason DMDE is better with the virtual driver is that I just added SCSI to the driver, and DMDE can be switched to I/O SCSI. But this is really only needed to help with the driver stability, and it was not considered in the original comparison as it was not implemented at the time.