Though this program seems to have been on board since atleast March 2010, there seems to be very little information by way of expert reviews/user reviews. Even in CNets's download.com there is not a single user review. I could get a small video review here May be someone here - who actually needs data to be recovered - should try and report. A mock trial can only be a second best.:) Looks to be a promising program using which one can make a sector to sector copy of a battered HDD to another good HDD and try recovery on it, keeping the original HDD unscathed. ( More often when one tries Data Recovery using various Data Recovery tools, the chances are that one can muck it up further and stress it further.). I see there is not a lot of feedback on this tool so I thought I would post our experience with it. Our problem was not with recovering a damaged hard drive, but making a clone of a drive with an unrecognizable format. We have an older radio system that utilizes 3 Posix boxes (probably early 90s) as part of the system. We need to keep these going for about another 5 years so we wanted spare hard drives ready to go. We do not foresee any new configuration changes since the system is End of Life, so a cloned drive was a good and fast solution for us if we were to have a failure. They each contain a Seagate ST34520N 4.55GB SCSI hard drive. The first thing we did was to purchase a couple of used external SCSI hard drive boxes. We also purchased a couple of USB to SCSI adapters on the used market since we could not find any manufacturers of these any longer. We did initially try using 1 USB to SCSI adapter with a SCSI chain but discovered only SCSI 0 would work with the USB adapters. We also purchase another Seagate ST34520N drive to clone to. Initially we tried using Clonezilla but found it difficult to use, and we did not have any success with it. Then we came across HDDGURU HDD Raw Copy Tool. It has a very user friendly GUI and was simple to use. It took 3.5 hours to clone the drive (USB to serial adapters USB 1.1), but in the end we had a cloned drive.
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