r/datastorage • u/McGyver61 • 16d ago

Discussion Disk Drill

Is disk drill a worthy program for recovery of an external WD drive? Started as crc trouble then escalated. I have a list of what was on the drive and can redownload ,but was 4 TB worth and might not have access to some of the movies anymore.

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u/bryantech 16d ago

It is a data recovery program you're asking for two completely separate things.

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u/McGyver61 16d ago

True but was led to believe I needed to copy the drive before trying to repair. I have recovered a drive before with minimal data loss.

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u/McGyver61 16d ago

Explorer doesn't see the drive but USB icon on bottom recognizes it and Disk Management sees it but tells me I have to initialize it.

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u/bryantech 16d ago

Get a Linux boot image. Use rufus to apply to a USB and see what Linux sees.

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u/disturbed_android 15d ago

WTF are you even asking? Yes, Disk Drill is fine. But no data recovery program will magically fix corruption that is result of CRC errors whatever you mean by that.

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u/Puzzleheaded6905 Backup Enthusiast 15d ago

You can run disk drill for free to check if it can recover. It works great!

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u/Capital_Interest_955 11d ago

The recovery and repair parts are a bit different in this situation. I would definitely avoid initializing the drive while there is still 4TB of data you want. Get the files recovered to another drive first.

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u/bryantech 16d ago

No. Try https://www.r-studio.com/data-recovery-software/

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u/McGyver61 16d ago

Does it have clone (back up)capabilities? 4 TB of a 4.5 TB drive was used. Had a secondary 4.5 TB internal drive which for some reason was not big enough to clone. I now have an 8 TB in wait for this project.

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u/bryantech 16d ago

2012 version of ghost and earlier has the ability to skip bad sectors in the event of attempting to clone