Tools for hard drive diagnostics, repair, and data recovery
April 22nd, 2021, 17:01
I've got a customer's 1tb Seagate 3.5" drive that was in a Buffalo NAS customer device. He had tried to update the firmware and it failed. I've removed the Seagate and sure enough it had a lot of bad sectors on it. I used HDDSuperclone Pro and successfully cloned it. I need to convert the disc into something that Windows can read. Is ExFat the easiest way of doing it?
April 22nd, 2021, 19:15
Is the intent to recover the files? Or to use the clone drive by mounting it long term on a Windows machine?
Some to ways to consider:
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April 22nd, 2021, 21:12
No, customer just wants the data from the NAS drive onto his supplied drive for a Windows setup.
April 22nd, 2021, 21:13
alfarom wrote:No, customer just wants the data from the NAS drive onto his supplied drive for a Windows setup.
Ok, great. So need.to worry about mounting it. Just extract using a data recovery tool, UFS Explorer perhaps, as it best with ext volumes in my opinion.
April 22nd, 2021, 21:15
Haven't got UFS Explorer, does DMDE work for this?
April 22nd, 2021, 21:53
alfarom wrote:Haven't got UFS Explorer, does DMDE work for this?
I forget if it supports ext volumes.
April 22nd, 2021, 21:56
I can see the file structure on the clone but the Home directory doesn't have anything in it. This is using DMDE
April 22nd, 2021, 23:14
Have to scan, as the file system is probably affected by bad sectors
April 23rd, 2021, 7:04
I'll try DMDE in Linux rather that Windows.
April 23rd, 2021, 8:56
Success. Using a linux system I could see all the data which was in the shared folder and copy it to the supplied drive which is Windows readable in ExFat. I might backup the data, format the donor drive as NTFS and copy the data back.
April 23rd, 2021, 8:59
Nice.
Would definitely stay away from exFAT.
April 23rd, 2021, 9:12
Worked to get hold of the data. As I said, I am backing up the data and converting the new drive to NTFS and will copy the recovered data back.
April 23rd, 2021, 17:38
Were you able to see the shared folder by using DMDE in Linux or just by mounting it ?
I was wondering if DMDE would behave different in Linux.
Thanks
April 24th, 2021, 2:15
In the end I was able to mount and view the clone in Linux. Copied user data to backup without issue. DMDE can access drives in Linux.
April 24th, 2021, 10:00
That's what I thought.
Thanks.
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