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technet

Post subject: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 8:00

Joined: February 5th, 2015, 7:54
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Location: United States of America

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a tool that does repair like HDD Regenerator, but in reverse mode: from the end to the begining of the HD.

Also I would like to get a license for Victoria full. The latest one that I know of is 4.47, and it only repairs in a non-free version which I still don't know how can I get.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 11:14

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Location: UK

Why reverse mode?

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lcoughey

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 11:24

Joined: February 9th, 2009, 16:13
Posts: 2513
Location: Ontario, Canada

technet wrote:

I'm looking for a tool that does repair like HDD Regenerator, but in reverse mode: from the end to the begining of the HD.

You are aware that HDD Regenerator doesn't repair the drive, right? Funny thing is, the cost of the program to "repair" the drive tends to be higher than the value of the drive being "repaired."

#snakeoil

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technet

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 11:39

Joined: February 5th, 2015, 7:54
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Location: United States of America

Repair like HDDReg, we understand that's just magnetic.

Reverse mode to thereby disable lookahead caching, which allows recovering in some scenarios. For instance, imaging in reverse mode is well known to allow recover of unreadable HDDs.

Any other recommendation would be welcome, also.

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Tomset

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 11:57

Joined: September 29th, 2005, 4:10
Posts: 421
Location: Moscow

HDD Regenerator = MHDD + remap = Victoria + remap.

reverse mode HDD Regenerator = Victoria + reverse read + remap

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technet

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 12:14

Joined: February 5th, 2015, 7:54
Posts: 8
Location: United States of America

Hello Tomset and thank you for the reply,

HDDreg does a remap, not a restore? It always seemed to do a restore of the unreadable sectors.

Victoria has this restore feature but not in the free version. How get the full version?

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data-medics

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 5th, 2015, 14:21

Joined: April 3rd, 2011, 0:19
Posts: 2020
Location: Providence, RI

And you should be aware that these functions should only ever be tried to "refurbish" drives, not to recover data from them. In all likelihood it'll kill the drive before "fixing" anything.

If you want the data back, you should try a program called ddrescue in Linux.

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Tomset

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 6th, 2015, 4:37

Joined: September 29th, 2005, 4:10
Posts: 421
Location: Moscow

Code:

HDDreg does a remap, not a restore? It always seemed to do a restore of the unreadable sectors.

99,999% bad sectors can not be read.
So, recovering of them - it's a fairy tale.
Author Victoria wanted to implement it, but changed his mind in time.

HDD Regenerator also can not.
Нe rewrites bad sectors signature 0000.

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labtech

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 6th, 2015, 9:05

Joined: August 18th, 2010, 17:35
Posts: 3630
Location: Massachusetts, USA

@OP
What is the full model of the drive?
What are the SMART values on the drive?
What tests have you run that support "a repair" is feasible and likely successful?

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data-medics

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 6th, 2015, 18:32

Joined: April 3rd, 2011, 0:19
Posts: 2020
Location: Providence, RI

That link that technet posted: http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html
Credits someone named Dmitry as having developed HDD Regenerator

That's not the same Dmitry who runs this forum is it??? :?:

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 6th, 2015, 18:53

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 14945
Location: Australia

data-medics wrote:

That link that technet posted: http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html
Credits someone named Dmitry as having developed HDD Regenerator

That's not the same Dmitry who runs this forum is it??? :?:

The "DPO" in dposoft is "Dmitriy Primochenko Online".

This forum's owner/moderator is maysoft aka Dmitry Postrigan.

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technet

Post subject: Re: Reverse scan with repair? Victoria Purchase?

Posted: February 8th, 2015, 9:42

Joined: February 5th, 2015, 7:54
Posts: 8
Location: United States of America

Does exist a similar Windows/DOS tool with the same features from DDRescue but with a GUI?

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