#TESTDISK COPY FILES TO ANOTHER DRIVE FOR MAC#

Compatibility for Mac users: TestDisk & PhotoRec are not yet natively compatible with Macs using Apple Silicon chips.The alternative utilities we listed in this article have modern graphical user interfaces (GUI) with 1-click recovery.

#TESTDISK COPY FILES TO ANOTHER DRIVE WINDOWS#

It works and looks like the Command tool for Windows or the Terminal for macOS.

UI & ease of use: By far, the biggest complaint we – and other users – have with TestDisk (and its companion PhotoRec) is its user interface (UI).

Here are a few other reasons why you might want to look at TestDisk alternatives: Meanwhile, premium utilities are updated nearly every month and can apply those updates automatically so you’re never working with an outdated app. TestDisk is a great tool, but it’s not perfect – in fact, TestDisk & PhotoRec (TestDisk’s companion app) were last updated in 2019. We’ll tell you what we like most about each TestDisk alternative, their price, platform availability, and what we think could use more work. We’ve collected 5 TestDisk alternatives that can help you recover your data just as easily, with better-designed graphics user interfaces (GUIs), and with additional functions like data backup, permanent deletion, remote recovery, and more. Same goes for DD-Rescue, it seems to be working properly - a few hangs from time to time, and it's only going at a few hundred kB/sec (On a 1tb drive - you do the math), but it's actually working.Tried TestDisk and didn’t like it? TestDisk can be considered a cult classic by fans of open source software, but it can be a little intimidating to use by a novice. It was slow as hell, but it worked like a champ. I copied some stuff that I knew I needed using its file browser. I can't even mount the drive in Linux, but Testdisk handled it no problems at all beyond taking a minute to read it. On a related note, is there anything faster than dd-rescue for copying files off of a drive such as mine? Or a Clonezilla argument that I missed to make it skip problem sectors? Hell, even just getting a list of all my files and directories put into a text file would help me a lot since most of my stuff can be gotten again - with a lot of work, effort, and time, but it's possible for most of it.Īlso I just wanted to say, Testdisk is absolutely amazing. May not be a logical reaction since it was probably just a coincidence, but still. And given that my problem occurred shortly after using Teracopy and Windows 8.1's move, I'd rather not use them again. So, on to my question: What's the safest way to copy all of the files off of my 1tB drive with the SMART error, over to my HGST 4tB? The HGST already has one partition, and about a terabyte of stuff on it that I'd really rather not redownload. Needless to say, all of this has left me paranoid since the drive I'm worried about now is over 5 years old and has a 'Spin-up Time' SMART error. Still didn't work, so right now I'm using dd-rescue to copy everything off of it to a new drive since Clonezilla refuses to work on it, even though dd-rescue and testdisk do (With some a few minute hangs every now and then). So eventually I got into a Linux distro and tried running ntfsfix, then running Windows' chkdsk from the recovery console which I somehow got working once. My drive showed up properly in the BIOS, but I couldn't get into Windows or Windows boot disc with that drive plugged in. While restarting, it took forever, so I just left it do its thing - showing the Windows loading screen for over an hour. An error noise that I couldn't read and didn't show up in the event viewer. Since my computer was acting a bit odd, I decided to restart - while logging out, I hear an error noise. Strange during the copy, although it ended up 'finishing' (A BUNCH of files weren't copied over) with no errors. Teracopy seemed to go faster, but my computer started to act. At first I used Windows 8.1's move via cut + paste, but after I saw how slow it was I force canceled it and used Teracopy. A few weeks ago I had a gotten a 4TB drive (HGST HDN724040ALE640), and started copying files off of my 'Entertainment' drive - a drive that was working fine, had no SMART errors, and was less than 18 months old.

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