ADRC Data Recovery Tools contains a collection of data recovery tools that supports a wide variety drives and file systems. It enables you to undelete files, create a disk image for backup, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, clone a disk, backup/edit/restore your boot parameters etc. As with most tools of this nature, administrator privileges are required to use the tools.
Note: ADRC Data Recovery Tools has the annoying habit of opening its user guide on the web in the web browser on startup. This behaviour cannot be disabled. It is not as stealthy as phoning home without your knowledge, but can be irritating.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ADRC_Data_Recovery_Tools_v1.0.exe. |
I think to produce a forensic copy, you will need to connect the drive to a write block device. You can not use software this way to produce a forensic image.
It doesn't produce a bit-stream copy (forensic safe). I restored a forensic safe image of a drive and then create an image with this software. I computed the hash values for the images, they don't match. I am albeit leary of this.
I tried the image backup utility. It creates a file equal in size to the disc you're backing up, regardless of how much is actually in use, and it's slow. I mean, 18hrs. for a 110GB drive slow! (on a core2-duo 3.2gHz with 2GB RAM)
When it finishes, it doesn't say or do anything. It just stops, and since the last "progress block" appears before file writing ends, you have to use a file I/O activity monitor to know when it's done.
This thing is probably fine, but it's not the hot deployment tool you're looking for.
i want to use this program to saved my data on my disk.
The ZIP package is now AWOL on the author webpage.
Note 2: apart from being irritating, it kinda defies the whole purpose of data recovery...
V1.1