Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × Table of Contents Tools SMART NTFS further information Data rescue / recovery Getting files and other data back which were deleted. The opposite of wiping files. Tools ddrescue, confusingly, can refer to two completely separate programs, GNU ddrescue and dd_rescue by Kurt Garloff. Both have the same purpose and are actively developed – versions as of 8/2023: dd_rescue: 1.99.13-2 GNU ddrescue: 1.27-1 Several sources prefer GNU ddrescue over dd_rescue1. photorec (often in the package testdisk) testdisk – get partitions back scalpel – forensic file retrieval foremost – forensic file retrieval, mostly compatible with scalpel, slightly newer and different results. SMART HDDs often show pending sectors before they fail: smartctl -x /dev/sdc | grep Sector NTFS rsync -a --info=progress2 /path/to/mounted/ntfs/partition /path/to/target ntfsclone --rescue --save-image --output - /dev/sdXX1 | xz -1 -cv > output-image.xz further information Arch Wiki "File recovery" [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/430000/: "ddrescue wins (in my book) because it is an efficient self-contained program written in C++ (not a shell script kludge), produces much cleaner output on the console/terminal, and (most importantly) handles unreadable blocks gracefully and intelligently." Last modified: 2023-08-26 15:58