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 Post subject: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 9th, 2017, 23:24 
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I am looking for a reliable recovered files testing and listing, anyone know a good one?


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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 10th, 2017, 3:13 
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TerraNova wrote:
I am looking for a reliable recovered files testing and listing, anyone know a good one?


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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 10th, 2017, 9:20 
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I have never tested it, but there is this: http://www.datarecoveryengineer.com/fil ... g_software

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 11th, 2017, 10:07 
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I have it and its not bad but the gui and the output are needs to be improved and No regular updates.


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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 11th, 2017, 11:55 
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In DFL DDP - there is a function, detect bad files. It can sort out a lot bad files

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 13th, 2017, 6:14 
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TerraNova wrote:
I have it and its not bad but the gui and the output are needs to be improved and No regular updates.


Hi Terranova ..

What would you like to see in the gui ? Last update was in 2016 ... Working on a new update to speed up HTML file list generation (uses third party HTML generation software but with a modified template to account for Status field. Some major problems with HTML Unicode, but that is a work in progress..

Also working on a 'selective copy' function where if you run a file list and there are critical files with bad sectors, when you try to over read or in some other way get a better recovery you can copy only those files marked as 'Contains bad sectors' or any other combination according to the status of the files.

Ive been looking at entropy for better file testing, but a word doc with an embedded jpg throws it. Any ideas on advanced file verification welcome :)

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
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Just added this because I forgot to select to get notifications..

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 13th, 2017, 16:40 
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http://www.luminsoftware.com/lumin-data-verifier

Got an email from them

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
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Would be interested to know how you get on with that. As we are obviously not charging enough for our software.

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 15th, 2017, 0:26 
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I have tested the LuminSoftware Data Verifier, sorry to tell you it is horrible. Crashes on me 80% of the time.


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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 16th, 2017, 3:18 
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We have a custom made software we use to make a file list and detect a repeated pattern e.g " <unreadable> " - and makes a HTML file tree type output for customers to see good/bad files very easily based on skipped sectors during imaging/cloning on tools like Deepspar Disk Imager and PC-3000/Data Extractor Or Atola Insight, we setup all of our images to fill skipped/unread sectors with the same pattern in our lab and it makes detecting the bad files based on these criteria of 'bad' to be detected easily. We often clone a drive after a head replacement and recover 99% of the data, this will detect which files have skipped/unread sectors and can move them to another folder. There are many other ways you can also do this, but we made our own software to suit our needs to help complete the data recovery process faster and present the results to our clients faster.

It also has a built-in screenshot making tool and can search for fill patterns (e.g for Encrypted drives) and email template generator to produce a report for your clients by email which it uses the stats of the file list results. If you are interested - email payam@payam.com.au


I'm happy to customise it to your company and sell you an annual license for it. Currently, it's only used for our own company and with our own branding/logo.
Or send me a PM.


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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 16th, 2017, 12:13 
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payamdatarecovery wrote:
We have a custom made software we use to make a file list and detect a repeated pattern e.g " <unreadable> " - and makes a HTML file tree type output for customers to see good/bad files very easily based on skipped sectors during imaging/cloning on tools like Deepspar Disk Imager and PC-3000/Data Extractor Or Atola Insight, we setup all of our images to fill skipped/unread sectors with the same pattern in our lab and it makes detecting the bad files based on these criteria of 'bad' to be detected easily. We often clone a drive after a head replacement and recover 99% of the data, this will detect which files have skipped/unread sectors and can move them to another folder. There are many other ways you can also do this, but we made our own software to suit our needs to help complete the data recovery process faster and present the results to our clients faster.

It also has a built-in screenshot making tool and can search for fill patterns (e.g for Encrypted drives) and email template generator to produce a report for your clients by email which it uses the stats of the file list results. If you are interested - email payam@payam.com.au


I'm happy to customise it to your company and sell you an annual license for it. Currently, it's only used for our own company and with our own branding/logo.
Or send me a PM.


Hi,
Very nice work there sir .i see a lot of big data recovery companies with their own tools

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 16th, 2017, 16:16 
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I usually just image the drive or required data, then save that data to some storage (server) with the 'save files with bad sectors in separate folder' or whatever the wording is in DE. Then, apart from say a PST file, any corrupt file with bad sectors is usually useless anyway.

Then I use Hddstruct to make a file listing of all the data, excluding the 'files with bad sectors' folder. I don't know where Hddstruct comes from or where to find it anymore, but I have a copy hosted on my site. Not claiming rights to it at all, it's not mine, I just have a copy available.

I sent the client the file listing that Hddstruct creates and boom, done. It's not often that clients want a file listing anyway. If anyone wants a copy:

http://www.southbit.co.za/hddstruct.exe

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 16th, 2017, 17:01 
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thanks .. good info here


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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 16th, 2017, 23:38 
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Hi,
A file listing software is not hard to find .The problem is that some of you want a file integrity testing software ,But the issue is that not all files have headers/footers with enough of that info so that some kind of algorithm can be worked out .Example in JPG such info is there and many tools do a decent job in testing jpg integrity .

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 24th, 2017, 16:02 
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Linux ddrutility is worth a mention here. Given a ddrescue log file (fyi a new ddrescue was just released 2 weeks ago) or a list of bad sector locations from another app, ddrutility can quickly identify the files associated with bad sectors. It works on NTFS, EXT2/3/4, FAT16/32, and HFS+ file systems.

Here's a real life example, I just had a client with a lenovo laptop that was slow, freezing and behaving erratically. SMART showed a few bad sectors so I made a null image with ddrescue to produce a ddrescue log file with the bad sector locations.

...abbreviated SMART data from /dev/sda

Code:
Model Family:     Seagate Laptop Thin HDD
Device Model:     ST500LT012-1DG142
Serial Number:    S3PQLXXX
Firmware Version: 0002LVM1
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       9
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   102   076   034    Pre-fail  Always       -       73236073
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       191
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       2212
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0


...make a null image to generate a ddrescue log file. Note /dev/null aka the Linux bit bucket is a special device that accepts and discards all data sent to it.

Code:
root@lenovo ~ # ddrescue -f /dev/sda /dev/null  sda-null.log
GNU ddrescue 1.19
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
rescued:   500107 MB,  errsize:    4096 B,  current rate:        0 B/s
   ipos:    32727 MB,   errors:       1,    average rate:   91210 kB/s
   opos:    32727 MB, run time:    1.52 h,  successful read:      15 s ago
Finished


...so just 4096 bytes unreadble...lets now feed the log file to ddrutility

Code:
root@lenovo ~ # ddrutility /dev/sda sda-null.log
ddrutility 1.6
Command line input was processed succesfully
Target = /dev/sda
Logfile = sda-null.log
Output base name = results
Sector size = 512
Loop wait time = 2
More info = false
Extra output = false
Quick = false
Quick ntfs = false
Target /dev/sda is detected to be a block device
Target /dev/sda is found to be a whole gpt partitioned disk
Processing ddrescue log file
Checking /dev/sda1
Partition /dev/sda1 type NTFS is found to be ntfs
Checking /dev/sda2
Partition /dev/sda2 type FAT32 is found to be fat
Checking /dev/sda3
Partition /dev/sda3 type FAT32 is found to be fat
Checking /dev/sda4
Partition /dev/sda4 type  is found to be none
fsstat could not determine the partition type
Therefore the partition cannot be processed
The partition type may not be supported
Or the filesystem may be damaged
gfdisk reports the partition ID is 83 and the type is Linux
Checking /dev/sda5
Partition /dev/sda5 type NTFS is found to be ntfs
Checking cluster 7378412 Inode 149389 File /Windows/System32/config/COMPONENTS/$DATA
Checking /dev/sda6
Partition /dev/sda6 type NTFS is found to be ntfs
Checking /dev/sda7
Partition /dev/sda7 type NTFS is found to be ntfs
Processing output files
Producing stats
Creating list of files with counts
Cleaning up
Total elapsed time: 00:00:00:38


.... so it took ddrutility 38 seconds to find a damaged file on partition 5, which is the Windows8 OS partition, /Windows/System32/config/COMPONENTS/$DATA

And making a real image onto a new drive fixed the erratic behavior problem with the laptop. Case closed.

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 27th, 2017, 11:40 
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Some updates made to http://www.datarecoveryengineer.com/fil ... loads.html

Current version shows as v2.x.x but is in effect a preview version of 3.0.
Changes:

HTML listing is much faster than earlier versions
New less cluttered layout

For those that were unaware, Viewer is now compatible with Windows 8.x and Windows 10.
For MOST jobs an HTML file list can be generated. There are still some problems with some Unicode char sets. Working on a different solution to HTML file lists.

Current license holders may need a new key, but I will provide these to all existing licensed users just send email with your purchase details. Contact details onsite above.

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 Post subject: Re: Any reliable file testing and listing program available?
PostPosted: February 27th, 2017, 21:23 
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I have tested the latest File Listing & Testing from http://www.datarecoveryengineer.com/fil ... loads.html

It is very impressive, response well with big files, fast and acceptably accurate and new nice GUI :) and of course affordable price.


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