WHDD is a HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool for Linux. It can test a hard drive with reads and writes, while providing intuitive visualization of the process. It also has a function for copying a device, with algorithms optimized for least harm to already-defective source devices. It works with your hard drives at a low level by sending ATA commands, which means that the system doesn't freeze while accessing damaged devices (the device is soft-reset on timeout).
Release Notes: Enhanced smart and smart_noreverse copying strategies. Introduces the new copying strategies skipfail and skipfail_noreverse. Introduces journaling of copying and automatic resuming of interrupted copying.
Supports overriding of procedure parameters via the ~/.whddrc config file. Several bugfixes.
Tags: Data recovery, HDD
Licenses: GPL
Software page:
whdd 2.1