Comments on: Recover Data from a Damaged hard disk using dd_rhelp

By: aya

aya — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:30:02 +0000

i have no idea how to extract this dd_rhelp-0.0.6.tar.gz file using tar xzvf dd_rhelp-0.0.6.tar.gz? can anyone tell me how to do it?please?

By: subham

subham — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:28:43 +0000

I want to recover my 80 gb HDD its not working.
But during startup its showing secondary device failure…Pl help me in solving this problem

By: shashidhar

shashidhar — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:00:38 +0000

i’v got bad sectors on hard disk and it gets detected in bios but fails to move further…..i need to retrieve myn 40gb drive wht to do?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:34:46 +0000

Finally found this post, many thanks, one of the better dd_rhelp run throughs on the net.
One question though if anyone can help, is it possible to run dd_rhelp in the following configuration:
dd_rhelp /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
Intention being to directly copy a damaged HDD partition to a new disk with an equal size partition (bypassing any image files). I have had this running for a day or so now and it doesn’t complain when the command is submitted, but I dont want to wait a week to find it wasn’t actually writing anything, so if anyone knows for sure that this wont work I will stop and start again with an image file intermediate step.

Many thanks,

By: prajyendu

prajyendu — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:03:40 +0000

You change your RAM then it will work properly or replace your ram

By: Britti

Britti — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:39:20 +0000

Great post.Thanks so much for the post.I have managed to recover some of my lost files from my HDD.I was so lucky and after getting them back,i rushed and backed them up online with safecopy backup among my other files.With safecopy,they keep deleted files forever and now am so happy that i go a new HDD and my account with safecopy backup has been upgraded.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:44:27 +0000

Manoj/Djaffar, even i too have the same problem. Really i dono how it went wrong in the HDD. Nearly after a week when i switched on my sys some creepy noise came from CPU and found its from HDD .
Can anything be done to recover the Data from HDD, can any one help me in this as i have few important data to be recovered.

-Ajay

By: Djaffar

Djaffar — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:57:34 +0000

Mr Manoj Shukla, I’m in the same shit like you, my daughter slamed my HDD and now it does the same sound as yoursand doesn’t start, from what I read in the net I thing it’s bad news buddy! really physical damaged HDD (like motor heads..)can’t be recovered by conventional recovery sofware but could be done by a specialized tech and some time not 100% all of data could be recovered?! well I’m still trying I hope I can find a solution.

By: MANOJ SHUKLA

MANOJ SHUKLA — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:05:02 +0000

My hard disk hit by me.It is not working, gone dead position.System in o position hard disk sound is kit kit kit ……………and do not start/detect any partition or any data. I want to recover 70GB data.What can I do? please help me.

By: Zubair

Zubair — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:04:59 +0000

Hi, can any 1 help me, I have did a mistake. I make reverse copy from backup disk to source disk. how can i undo this step because distination data copied to source disk. I want to bring back my source data.
Plz any one help me ASAP.
Zubair.

By: Rodney Rundstrom

Rodney Rundstrom — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:30:56 +0000

I have carried out the proceedure as listed by you and it went without any flaw however when I try to run dd_rhelp it tell THAT MY TARGET IS NOT ACCESSABLE. I have tried two other partions with the same result. I am using Ubuntu 9.04

By: shriganesh

shriganesh — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:12:55 +0000

hi
this is ganesh, i have problem with my HDD. i have downloade the dd_rhelp but i could not install it bcoz i could not under stand it. so kindly hepl me to retrive the datas.

By: Adam Collett

Adam Collett — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:16:05 +0000

Thank you SO much for this, I have just managed to recover my whole movie collection using this method. I had spent over three weeks getting all my DVD’s onto hard disk and then the file system went - after eventually finding somewhere with enough space I used this method, created an image file of the drive and then FSCK’d it and bingo - mounted it and there were all my films! I can’t tell you how pleased I am with this - I will be getting a RAID-1 setup now so that should something go wrong with a drive again I won’t have this problem - and I shall be backing up to a seperate physical device too!