HDD degenerator and drive recovery

[zazzn]

Hello all,

I was linked here from a thread regarding HDD regenerator which I saw does exactly the opposite.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28780

Fortunately, I tried cloning the disk with ghost 11 before I tried to run any recovery software on the original disk. Unfortunately it failed when it hit bad sectors, but I believe I got about 90% of the data recovered.

The story is this, my wife moved my backup machine and caused 3 of the 4 HD's to fail in my server. (1 that didn't fail was the SSD boot drive) Fortunately, not much was lost since the machines which were being backed up were all on SSD's except for one which had a data drive for storage. 2 weeks ago there was a earthquake in the bay area, which destroyed that data drive, and unfortunately I had not set up the new backup policy on the backup server yet....

I would like to know if anyone knows any tools that can scan pictures for corruption and MP3's for consistency, as this is the data that I would like to ensure is intact the most.

As for the HD's that have been damaged, is there anyway short of opening the disk to see if it's physical damage, or just magnetic errors on the disk.

[jerovsek]

Hello,

did you ghost(create image) your drive or not?
If yes, then work on clone, not on your "damaged" drive.
What is the model of your drive

[zazzn]

Hello,

The drive was cloned, but i believe there was some data that was lost. Unfortunately, I saw this forum after I already had run HDD regenerator. Furthermore, the clone disk did not complete.

I used stable bit scanner ( a tool i have for windows home server) to scan the health of the disk and found 2 bad blocks, i'm pretty sure they were related to the earthquake.

Stable bit did scan my data and it seems fine, but that was after HD regen which probably corrupted many of the files there.

I will sift through the files, but was wondering if there is any tools to check these files to ensure they are good without me having to open and test each file.

[LarrySabo]

Data Recovery Engineering Software

The purpose of this software is to automatically test the quality of files after data recovery. This is achieved by comparing the header contents of each file against a database of known content. Once the entire drive is tested - at speeds often exceeding 10,000 files per minute - a network message is sent so that you know the job is complete and ready for the next stage in the process.