open The initial texts of the information from faulty hard drives – hddsuperclone , which allows you to extract the surviving data from the disk in the conditions of errors when reading or failing of individual magnetic heads. As the reason for the opening of the initial texts, the lack of time to maintain the project is mentioned. The code is open under the GPLV2 license (license mentioned inside files with code). The code is published in TAR archive , but by the GitHub enthusiasts already created repostation , in which they plan to continue the development of the project.
initially the project was supplied in binary assemblies under the EULA agreement and developed as an advanced alternative to the GNU DDRESCUE utility, which expands its capabilities, previously available only in hardware cloning systems of downbreaks such as Deepspar DDI4 and RapidSpar. HDDSUPERCLONE supports imports and export of files with DDRESCUE magazines, which allows you to switch between these two utilities if necessary.
Open code, including a paid pro-version, in which the following possibilities are available:
- Direct access modes Direct AHCI and Direct USB, allowing adaptively to discard or cross the nutrition of unstable drives in case of freezing.
- The “Virtual Driver” mode, which allows you to copy not the entire disk, but only those sectors on which the necessary data are placed.
- The ability to access the drive using a virtual disk that has a different size of logical sectors, which can be useful for returning the original size of the logical sectors on the disk, which is accessed through the SATA interface, but which was originally used with the USB interface.
- Support for cloning and creating images of SAS (SCSI) drives, which uses 520 bytes per sector, and preservation of the result in the image or on another disk, which uses 512 bytes per sector.
- function of analysis of the state of the disk.
- Support for sector sizes that are different from 512 bytes, and the ability to configure the size of the unit to optimize the work with BAD sectors on the disks in which sectors are used, the size of 4096 bytes.
- The rapid pass mode, which uses more aggressive algorithm for bypassing damage on the disks and ignoring the outburst of magnetic heads.
- Support for using data returned by the ATA interface for marking problem sectors.