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Hello,

Which software would you recommend to do a file list with the good and the bad files?
Bad files would be the ones that for some reason were not possible to recover.

Thanks

What tools are you using to clone the drive?

This has been brought up before, if you do a search of the forum you should find the thread. use search params like "file" "list" "good" "software" etc

edit, this might be it, or there could be one more I am thinking of...

http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27975&p=192552&hilit=file+list+software#p192552

There is this: http://www.datarecoveryengineer.com/fil ... g_software

LarrySabo wrote:There is this: http://www.datarecoveryengineer.com/fil ... g_software

They use header control and some other little filters.
Honestly after some experiment, software can find only some damaged or corrupted files.
For example a file with correct heder but some damaged (or overwritten) sectors in middle in not a working file but also software verification will pass succesfully.
Anyway I see last update in 2012 and I'm also unable on use it on Windows 8, so I guess they stop to develop it.

Many programs for data recovery can do this via their logging. Its a hastle to go through, but gets you the list.

Data extractor and Deepspar DRE will do this for you, but there's no free software only solution as far I know.

Having said that, neither DE or DRE actually check the validity of the contents of the file, only whether or not they contain unread sectors. Normally good enough except in the case of overwritten files or encrypted.