Data Recovery Imager Comparisons

[lcoughey]

For those who might be interested and aren't already aware, I've logged the results imaging the same Toshiba hard drive supplied by Spildit using various data recovery imagers.

Hardware Data Recovery Imager Comparrison

[databack]

Missing Atola!!!!

[LarrySabo]

My results with the DFL-SRP (DDP) are discussed in Spildit's forum, and were bizarre, to say the least. I ran three tests; the first under Windows 10 was cancelled because it appears that DFL-SRP is not compatible with Win10, even though it seemed to be working normally. (DFL does not claim it's Win10-compatible.) The second was run on a PC running Windows 7 and completed in 11 hrs with zero errors -- not plausible. It was using using a scavenged 250GB drive as a target disk. The third was run on the same PC with output to a file rather than a hard drive, and it completed in just over 11 hrs and had 81 unreadable sectors -- again, not plausible.

Spildit has speculated on the causes for these results in the thread cited above and I returned the patient disk, the clone from the second test, and the image from the third to him for analysis, but the package has still not been received after 4 and a half weeks. Can it get any weirder?

[data-medics]

Missing Atola!!!!

I wouldn't say he's really "missing" it.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Well,
I have Received a MRT Ultra And I Have Already shot a Unboxing Video With My Inputs To It .I Would Then Be Doing 2 More Videos On That One Setup An Initial Registration and second one is working around with the tool .I have all the tools pc3k , dfl and mrt later on i am planning to do a real life comparison of the tools .I do not like what you folks are doing .What you are doing is that you are taking a degraded drive and then trying to image it on different tools without understanding that the drive is getting worse by every attempt .I would not be doing a comparison like this but its going to be different .

Some Videos On My youtube Channel -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbIeLF ... TQu_QSCsgQ

[LarrySabo]

... I returned the patient disk, the clone from the second test, and the image from the third to him for analysis, but the package has still not been received after 4 and a half weeks. Can it get any weirder?

That shipment was just returned yesterday, stamped "Not reclaimed." It appears to have been opened by Portugal customs. I'm ready to ship it again, with "Signature required" this time, if there is still interest in the project.

[pclab]

Not Reclaimed could be that the Address was wrong...
Even if Customs check it, it should pass...

[LarrySabo]

Yes, I thought of that, but the address was a copy/paste from the one given to me. I've PM'd Spildit a scan of the outgoing address label and the customs label, so we'll see what he thinks went wrong.

[craig6928]

Missing Atola!!!!

im surprise that atola did not get tested out also.


these tools are good for imaging and recovering.


also there no data compass


it would also be good if we knew what pc specs where used for the testing purpose.

[LarrySabo]

To add to the weirdness, it appears that my DFL gear did in fact manage to recover all of the data, according to Spildit's analysis of my results: http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?p=16349#p16349

The drive has been forwarded to @maximus for testing using hddsuperclone. His results begin here: http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?p=16295#p16295

... I returned the patient disk, the clone from the second test, and the image from the third to him for analysis, but the package has still not been received after 4 and a half weeks. Can it get any weirder?

That shipment was just returned yesterday, stamped "Not reclaimed." It appears to have been opened by Portugal customs. I'm ready to ship it again, with "Signature required" this time, if there is still interest in the project.