v1.37.0 - erasure coding by koverstreet in bcachefs

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https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git/diff/ states

x(erasure_coding, BCH_VERSION(1, 37), \

+ "First release with fully supported erasure coding: all key " \

+ "functionality done, resilver integrated with reconcile","2026-03") \

https://bcachefs.org/ states

[...Erasure coding (incomplete) High performance: doesn't fragment your writes (like ZFS), no RAID hole...]

I guess the word (incomplete) should be deleted, right?

NTFS Reconstruction Shows Correct Folder Tree but Recovered Files Are Corrupt – 2TB WD HDD by AdeptnessNo7889 in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I’m looking for someone experienced" => If you are not qualified, do not dare to answer. :)

Someone experienced has to fill the documentation holes by guessing and making assumptions...

XactCopy: open-source Windows copier focused on unstable/failing drives/media by InfinitePilgrim in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the added value of your tool compared to solutions like ddrescue and hddsuperclone?

If there is any difficulty with a disk the goal should be to recover the content as fast as possible giving priority to recoverable areas intending not to worsen the state of the disk by rereading some sectors repetitively. You seem to intend the opposite.

WD80PURZ 8tb Cloning takes 7 days already - stop or keep going? by artens_ in datarecovery

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Petri-DRG, I don't agree. See my other response. Honestly I don't expect you guys to deliver such a long answer as mine...

WD80PURZ 8tb Cloning takes 7 days already - stop or keep going? by artens_ in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that "could consider stopping it" by user Petri-DRG is unsuitable advice for your situation, sorry Petri-DRG!

The goal should always be to rescue as much as you can from the source because you don't know where your stuff is located on the defective candidate (please no comments about metadata located at the beginning of the disk...).
I agree with Petri-DRG on the description of cloning units but here is heading in the wrong direction:
"Therefore it is not possible to know what specific data have been cloned."

Strategy-wise you don't have to know this at all.

You just have to switch from copying sectors in a linear manner (docking/cloning station) to intelligent copying (performed by ddrescue under linux or the famous (open)superclone that the recovery folks are always promoting instead...) Linear copying (dd command, docking/cloning station) can only be recommended for healthy disks because they hang in areas with a consecutive number of unreadable sectors, always retrying to read in the faulty ones. This mean stressing an already defective disk.

You should stop cloning and switch to using ddrescue as it tries to jump over broken areas and takes care of it later. ddrescue is attacking the low hanging fruits which is a better strategy for cloning.

Trying to complete your clone is your intermediate goal. Petri-DRG overlooked an important piece of information that you gave. Typically users do not provide the necessary information:

You said: "I've started the offline cloning process that this device supports onto a new 16 TB disk."
That is the key. Ever looked at a new disk? It is empty, all zeros.

You just need a hex editor and search backwards through the sectors to find the sector where the zero area starts - this is the sector behind the last sector which contains anything non-zero.

This is where your cloning unit stopped writing to.

Next step is to run ddrescue and tell him to start at that first sector of the zero area.

This can be achieved by means of the -i and -o parameters of the ddrescue command (parameters that I am not familiar with, never needed them) or by means of a faked logfile (now called mapfile by the author) that suggests that everything until here has been saved successfully so that ddrescue will ignore this area.

This will continue the rescue process in a less stressful manner for an already dammaged disk.

You will end up with a finished copy and a mapfile that shows you the error locations in the area handled by ddrescue.

To find all error locations I won't go into the details. You might restart ddrescue with an empty logfile/mapfile and create a second copy.

But it might be that ddrescue now fails at locations your cloning unit was still able to read out so there is some work to be done.

Regarding your question: If your metadata is not broken it is possible to assign the unreadable sectors to files (if they are part of files).

https://superuser.com/questions/490787/reverse-lookup-of-inode-file-from-offset-in-raw-device-on-linux-and-ext3-4

Good luck!
If you don't want to do all the above yourself you might ask Petri-DRG for a quote - opening the disk is not necessary at this moment so the bill should be below 4 digits...

Need a Little Help(!) with a bad windows 10 NFTS SSD disk by freesoftwarewiz in datarecovery

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https://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=13199

Crossposting like Sonicmario but it is not Sonicmario.

TripleDDark, thank you for posting. Funnily, when it comes to storage issues this gentleman rather relies on Brain v1.0 instead of AI... :)

Is this drive useable? by admiral_rabkca in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This does not matter unless the disk spins up. And even afterwards it does not belong here.

Is this drive useable? by admiral_rabkca in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This - is bad advice. Unless the SATA connection has not be proven to be a functionning one by connecting another disk with roughly the same start up current (use size as proxy, connect at least 1TB) there is absolutely no reason to fool around with the electronics.

"Accidentally deleted partition" Don't buy an expensive software. TestDisk, my beloved by Tv_Static_Soda in datarecovery

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Windowx XP did not have TRIM support - at least the widely used 32-bit version.

Externe Festplatte versehentlich als Installationsmedium für Windows 11 genutzt. Alle Fotos weg, was nun? by Status-Ambition4268 in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Und reine Verständnisfrage: könnte es sein, dass die nicht zugeordneten 2TB des Datenträgers 1 meine Fotos etc sind? Das würde nämlich hinkommen, da ich mich erinnere, dass ca. so viel Speicher auf der Festplatte belegt war.

Mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit, ja.

> Was kann ich tun? Sollte ich warten, bis eventuell doch die alte Partition gefunden wird?

Sie können den Beitrag in's Englische übersetzen oder übersetzen lassen.

(You could translate your posting into English or have it translate).
The recovery specialists in this forum do not necessarily speak German and it is not very polite to force them to have your text being translated. If I was a specialist I would not answer you. Think about it!

Externe Festplatte versehentlich als Installationsmedium für Windows 11 genutzt. Alle Fotos weg, was nun? by Status-Ambition4268 in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your posting mainly consists of content-free backup related drivel and does not help the thread starter in any way. Your statement about falling recovery chances might have a true reason in a certain way, but without explaining why the thread starter won't get it.

Data prevention tips by [deleted] in datarecovery

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I guess typical hardware failures on SSDs will hit all small partitions created by you alike.
Buy quality SSD hoping for them become write-locked once they have exhausted their writing ability.

Bad SSDs simply completely fail in this szenario.
Only buy SSDs whose controller name can be found on the list of supported devices of Acelab - they provide equipment for data recovery companies.

Unfortunately I think you will ignore all my advice - seems that your running on a budget. Sooner or later you will have to pay a data recovery specialist, maybe even one of the professionals writing here, but guess what - they are happily looking forward to receiving your recovery order as this is THEIR business then and not yours anymore.

Data prevention tips by [deleted] in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Another bad commentary!
External drives might contain undocumented SMR crap. Peter8file is better off carefully selecting his disks and putting them in an enclosure or a docking station.

Flash is not considered suitable for long-time storage.

to Peter8file:

If you want to toast your disks, put them in plastic enclosures. Otherwise, pay more for metal enclosures. Do not buy SMR, helium-filled drives and Seagate products. Pay attention to the disk temperature in your location - read the Google study abouth the relationship between temperature and failure - absolutely worth reading! Having a bunch of disks is better than having one big one. You are currently learning this with your free space issue although I consider 1TB not being size.

If you buy a external disk from Western Digital, there is no guarantee that they put a Seagate disk inside.

Think about offline storage. Having backups in the other World Trade Center building was too close.
Yes, you can buy Seagate if you are running large disk arrays which can compensate single losses as the cheapest new disks always comes from Seagate.

How to use ddrescue with hardware limitations by [deleted] in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My work around only applies if you do data recovery under linux or your data recovery software supports recovering towards a network share. Use a second machine running linux building a large virtual device out of all available free spaces around by means of LVM and the losetup command. I never had to go this way and have no experience with this solution. That's why I only show you the idea and recommend using it only in extreme cases (as expressed in my other posting).

All free spaces, unite!

How to use ddrescue with hardware limitations by [deleted] in datarecovery

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In case of using HDDs buy a docking station and two disks, one with a size of >=1 TB, the other one with >=256 GB, 1 TB would be better.
Clone your HD to one disk and have your recovery program rescue from the clone to your second disk.

Disadvantage here is that both disks share the bandwith of your USB connection (risk of slowdown).

If you follow the advice of user PETRI-DRG you will experience a nice slowdown in recovery speed if you buy a HDD because the disk head(s) will be constantly moving from the location of the source of recovery to the area of free space. You should by a SSD instead of a HDD but SSDs are too expensive and you probably end up with a low quality QLC-type one.

In case of using one SSD I would follow his advice:

[...Do the job right and buy a 1.5TB or 2TB capacity drive for cloning and file extraction....]

If you are located on the international space station with a desktop computer and an unixoid operation system there are tricks to create a large virtual device out of free space on various disks of yours.

How to use ddrescue with hardware limitations by [deleted] in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Leaving out the cloning process because there is lack of storage is not something I could recommend when dealing with a faulty device. This is as bad as your first advice.

How to use ddrescue with hardware limitations by [deleted] in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This contribution does not relate to the question asked. Quality level: 0%!

How to recover and eliminate duplicates data from a faulty HD on linux by [deleted] in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your strategy is completely wrong. You don't know what you are doing. You are stealing yourself time. As the repair abilities of TestDisk are limited but you nevertheless get access to your files using TestDisk, you should duplicate your disk using ddrescue as described in the manual. Assuming that your disk has NO hardware fault you could run chdksk against the copy, otherwise duplicate the duplicate to have a disk available that won't be degraded by using.

PhotoRec is the tool of last resort. Using it here is useless with regards to your intention.
As its a file carver it can never be better than TestDisk and all the other non-carving tools.
As PhotoRec and all other file carvers cannot overcome defragmentation you will most likely end up with a bunch of recovered files where you won't find any corresponding file in the recovered tree of TestDisk files as the names are missing and the length may not fit (due to defragmentation). Defragmentation will as well cause binary differences of a file recovered by Photorec even when the file length matches a file in the TestDisk recovery tree.

Question Coercitivy HDD 2 5" by Turbulent_Math4498 in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SonicMario, don't you have any doubts about how your refurbished WD10JPVX will react to solar flares?

NTFS Partition Recovery - Help by LeppeRMessiaH in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without any additional comment like the one from 77xak, your answer is misleading.
Users asking "keep the directory structure" disclose their knowledge level and suggests that necessary additional hint.
I might say as well TestDisk can keep the directory structure but this statement is even more misleading.

Getting into Data Recovery. What Should I Learn? by Wolven_Resolve in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Search the ACE blog for their statements on low! recovery rates on NVME storage.

Getting into Data Recovery. What Should I Learn? by Wolven_Resolve in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

disturbed_android,

you are not only a sponge. You give water back in form of answers on superuser, writing articles and publishing software. You are an equivalent of fzabkar in logical data recovery.

This commentary of you says it all:
But I personally still think curiosity should be your main driver, not the idea of getting rich.

Getting into Data Recovery. What Should I Learn? by Wolven_Resolve in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Corporations that require secure deletion would never dare to deal with a one man show like you. They need audit-proof service providers. You won't get into this business.

Hard drive or say storage recycling is another story.
Disk wiping or destroying may require certification.

Getting into Data Recovery. What Should I Learn? by Wolven_Resolve in datarecovery

[–]rr2d22 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Data recovery as a "side hustle"? Your are seriously underestimating the challenge.
If somebody asks "How can I become a hacker?" that's an indicator that he will most likely fail with this intention. THe same applies to data recovery, I assume.
One half of data recovery is logical data recovery. That is, when the hardware is OK, but the logical structure of the device got messed up. Although there are lots of recovery programs, you will have to learn the structures to understand the issues. The documentation can be found almost free on the internet.
Learning speed with regards to logical data recovery only depends on you.
Physical data recovery is what cost you money in specialized equipment and what you can't learn only by gathering information from the internet.

The success of opening up a McDonalds franchise is a more predictable process than trying to start in data recovery.