Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
February 3rd, 2011, 9:14
I wanted to purchase Hd duplicator for cloning heavky bad sectored disk. Deepspar is out of budget & the other best alternate is hd duplicator. I had emailed them few weeks back but no response. Does anyobe know any alternate to this tool
February 3rd, 2011, 9:16
Check the Atola Tools. Is cheaper than Deepspar. Or even the SD Data Compass.
February 3rd, 2011, 11:49
In my opinion , actually, there's LITTLE OR NO REAL alternative to Deepspar, and if you can't afford Deepspar, even the other mentioned tools are out of range.
Option 2 / plan " B " : make your own.
February 3rd, 2011, 12:38
thanks Buddies
I think Hd duplicator is cheapest may be US$ 400. Price of Atola Imager is at Par with Deepspar ( around US$ 3500)
I will purchase Deepspar in next phase.
February 3rd, 2011, 12:39
BlackST
Can you help me for Plan B?
February 3rd, 2011, 12:59
How many data recovery projects do you currently get that you need the imager for? My suggestion is for you to use gnu ddrescue (free) and outsource what you cannot do until you have enough work to justify the DeepSpar Imager. For most, DeepSpar will pay for itself within weeks.
February 3rd, 2011, 13:29
TaskManager wrote:BlackST
Can you help me for Plan B?
Quite difficult remotely ....
February 3rd, 2011, 13:31
lcoughey wrote:How many data recovery projects do you currently get that you need the imager for? My suggestion is for you to use gnu ddrescue (free) and outsource what you cannot do until you have enough work to justify the DeepSpar Imager. For most, DeepSpar will pay for itself within weeks.
The problem is when the drive need to be forcefully reset during imaging (in some particular conditions). Free stuff will show their limits very soon.
February 3rd, 2011, 18:16
Did you email the Russian author or the Polish reseller?
February 3rd, 2011, 20:46
Being able to recover by MFT mask is alone worth the price of a DDI. The algorithmic options it gives you pays dividends instantly. Heck, mine isn't even primarily used for data recovery and it paid for itself within a month.
February 4th, 2011, 4:21
Thank You all for your response & sharing your experiences.
I have just started Data recovery business & getting disk cloning / recovery work.
lcoughey -- I have other commercial products for cloning but these softwares & even hardwares cant clone bad sectored disk.
My experience shows that same disk cloned by HDduplicator gives very good results ,while cloning by specialiesd hardware fails.
I have emailed author 2-3 times ,however I have not emailed to polish distributor ,which i will make right away.
February 4th, 2011, 9:22
The HDD Duplicator does look like a fairly good program. It is too bad that it seems as though it is no longer available for purchase...at least not easily. I wouldn't mind playing with it to see how it stacks up against the hardware imagers.
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