Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Recoup - copy utility for hard drives that are not completely dd


Recoup is a copy utility for hard drives that are not completely dd. It can clone hard drives with bad media spots (sectors) and other non-critical hardware faults that may cause other data recovery utilities to hang. Recoup™ uses both hardware-level commands and lit aorithms to copy the raw data from the source drive to another hard drive. Recoup™ accesses the source drive strictly in rd-only mode and presents no risk to the source drive except for normal wr and tr.

For Recoup to work, the drive must still be detected by the computer BIOS at boot time and respond to basic commands.

In the best-case scenarios, the destination drive will be accessible normally in ® Explorer after the copy operation is complete and the computer is rebooted. In other scenarios, the drive is not directly accessible but the files and folders it contains can be recovered using a file recovery utility such as File Scavenger®. See "What is copied".

While copying a hard drive, Recoup and even ® may hang on rding a bad spot on . That usually requires a reboot. When it is restarted, Recoup™ will litly avoid the bad spot and continue to copy other parts of the hard drive. A badly damaged drive may require a few reboots. Eventually Recoup™ will copy all rdable data.


Recoup can be used in the following cases:
A hard drive contains many bad media spots (sectors) which cause other data recovery utilities to hang.
A hard drive is accessible after the computer is booted up but may go offline later without warning.
A hard drive is detected by the computer BIOS at boot time but may cause the computer to hang later.
The drive electronics have partially failed and only respond to basic commands.
Recoup™ does not work in the following cases:
A hard drive has a mechanical failure and does not spin up.
The drive electronics have completely failed and do not respond to any commands.
A hard drive is not detected by the BIOS when the computer is turned on.
In other words, Recoup can copy a hard drive that is not completely dd. A dd hard drive must be sent to a cln room facility where it is rd with special hardware equipment. Sometimes components must be replaced. Fortunately, a large majority of hard drives can be copied. See "Determine the status of a hard drive".

Recoup is not required when a hard drive has no hardware faults but data is not accessible in Explorer due to corruption or accidental deletion of partitions. In this case use a file recovery utility such as File Scavenger to recover files.

Recoup supports the following types of storage devices, listed in the order of Recoup's effectiveness:
IDE drives and SATA drives.
SCSI, SAS and USB drives.
Zip drives, , , memory cards (such as Memory Stick, Compact Flash, MMC, SD, xD, etc.), and other removable devices.
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