Integrity Checking

[hddguy]

Is there any commercial software that will allow a automatic comparison of file headers in recovered data against a database of good signitures?

[CK]

Here you go...

http://www.datarecoveryengineer.com/fil ... _software/

[beto]

well some times the "header" could be fine but the "body" will be bad or overwritted from a format, or bad sectors on that zone so for me its not good trust on a soft wich check only " headers" IMHO

Regards

[HDD Spaz]

well some times the "header" could be fine but the "body" will be bad or overwritted from a format, or bad sectors on that zone so for me its not good trust on a soft wich check only " headers" IMHO

Regards

Thats what I was thinking.

I suppose you can use it on simple recoveries to look good though.

[scratchy]

well some times the "header" could be fine but the "body" will be bad or overwritted from a format, or bad sectors on that zone so for me its not good trust on a soft wich check only " headers" IMHO

Regards

These problems are well known, and there is no software that can determine file quality to that extent. Using the software CK linked to, it does give a good idea as to what is recoverable, and the overall quality.

From what I hear, the next version of this software will have bad sector testing in the form that most imaging software let you write a bad sector marker to the entire sector - e.g. (UNREADABLE) for MTools, etc. That will help a bit more, but obviously take longer.

[prodata]

Integrity check... Simply find one fragmented one.. if you can follow its track... I think You are already DONE.. since the content of the file was corrupted by Bad Sector. You check manually. But seem nonsence if we Check ALL file...The best is ask the client and just check the important file according to File system, Header, and Footer. I dont think S/w can support ALL kind of File. maybe it do. But surely can not be 100% perfect....