Hdd Regenerator Bootable Usb
Karina Edling
Indeed, in some cases the loading of the operating system and the subsequent hard disk check in Windows are not possible. The bootable usb flash drive comes to the rescue. Regenerating flash allows doing performance tests, fixing bad sectors and - if lucky - reviving the HDD.
6. The bootable flash drive with HDD Regenerator in the kit is ready for use. The BIOS must be set to boot from it. It is clear that these operations should be done on a computer with a bad hard drive that needs to be regenerated.
In addition to the bootable USB stick, you can also burn a CD / DVD with the HDD Regenerator software included. (Although, of course, the option with a USB flash drive is more convenient). To do this, use the Bootable CD / DVD command.
In addition to burning the bootable disk through the program, you can download the LiveCD under the name GRUB4DOS. In addition to HDD Regenerator, LiveCD includes other utilities - MHDD, Victoria HDD, MemTest and other hard disk test software.
Vlad is a professional writer. He has expert knowledge in data recovery with 15 years of experience. He started his career as a journalist by reviewing PC and mobile apps. His current responsibilities are to keep track of users' questions and answer them.
I have tried looking around, but no luck. I know about utilities like HDAT, but HDD Regenerator has the ability to run from inside Windows, rather then off a boot medium, which would make my life so much easier.
Sorry, but HDD Regenerator cannot repair physical damage to a hard drive. If you are looking for a good file recovery tool, try Recuva, Avoid applications that say they can claim lost data from physically damaged bad sectors, they can try to recover data but most likely won't work, usually requires specialists to do it for you.
Also, I'm not sure if your aware, but a few years ago hard drive manufacturers started putting extra space on hard drive platters incase of a bad sector occuring. Usually the hard drive will automatically transfer the data out of the bad one, and into a fresh new one then report that it's seen a bad sector via SMART.
These applications like HDD Regenerator are just programs that people use to get money from people. Data in bad sectors can sometimes be recovered, but normal free applications like Recuva will have a good chance by itself to do it for you, if not then your pretty much out of look and a specialist can take a go at it but that's a lot of money.
This is positively wrong. I've repaired many hard drives with bad sectors, and there have been many occasions where doing so rendered an unbootable OS workable. So clearly, it's possible to repair bad sectors.
Free applications like recuva can not find everything, sometimes they find nothing at all and make you think the drive is toast. If it is not clicking and you have not wiped your drive and there is no physical damage to the drive itself, there are alternatives that you can try to see if you can get data off other than the free utilities. I have had little luck with free utilities, tbh. Many of the free utilities would only see files that weren't deleted, some saw files that were deleted but only ones that have been deleted recently. There are low cost solutions that work much better than expensive solutions...I had a customer go to staples to have them try to recover data, they told him it was doa. They told him that they tried a software recovery and also told him that they tried putting it in a "$1500 device" and couldn't read any data on it. I asked if I could have a crack on it, told him I wouldn't charge and asked if it was clicking. He said no to the clicking but he had little hope for anything being that staples with their big bad pos crap that they used couldn't get data. With my $20 2.5" HDD to usb apparatus and my $50 recovermyfiles software, I was able to recover all of his data and then he bowed down to me. He then returned to Staples and conversation with the manager to get his money back, according to him they accused me of having pirated high end software that was illegally obtained. Don't believe that just because one or two pieces of anything can recover. Free isn't always the answer.
Bad sectors are not always caused by physical damage to the platter. There are also logical bad sectors (soft errors) which in fact are easily repaired by disk utilities. Ideally a drive is supposed to automatically reassign bad sectors but this is seldom the case, and you usually need to repair them from a boot utility as Windows tends to throw fits if it encounters any disk problems.
It's true however that physical bad sectors cannot be repaired. If all goes well they are marked as bad and reassigned to spare sectors on the drive, but once physical damage has occurred it often spreads to adjacent sectors (or all over the drive if there is debris from a head crash). In these cases the drive should obviously be replaced.
Free applications like recuva can not find everything, sometimes they find nothing at all and make you think the drive is toast. If it is not clicking and you have not wiped your drive and there is no physical damage to the drive itself, there are alternatives that you can try to see if you can get data off other than the free utilities. I have had little luck with free utilities, tbh. Many of the free utilities would see files that weren't deleted, some saw files that were deleted but only ones that have been deleted recently. There are low cost solutions that work much better than paid for solutions...I had a customer go to staples to have them try to recover data, they told him it was doa. They told him that they tried a software recovery and also told him that they tried putting it in a "$1500 device" and couldn't read any data on it. I asked if I could have a crack on it, told him I wouldn't charge and asked if it was clicking. He said no to the clicking and he had little hope for anything being that staples with their big bad pos crap that they used couldn't get data. With my $20 2.5" HDD to usb apparatus and my $50 recovermyfiles software I was able to recover all of his data and he bowed down to me and had a conversation at staples to get his money back, according to him they accused me of having pirated high end software that was illegally obtained. Don't believe that just because one or two pieces of anything can recover. Free isn't always the answer.
Yet you completely missed what program he is trying to get. The program he wants an alternative for apparently can repair physically damaged bad sectors, which we both know, is not possible. I misunderstood what he wanted because I thought he wanted to recover data and in a lot of occasions (at least with my experience), Recuva has done a good job, but then again, I've never had to deal with cater-strophic failures like you've done. I'm not arguing that there will be paid software that can do the job, but a lot of programs are bull****.
repairing physical damage on the hard disk using software simply doesnt make any sense... there is nothing inside the hard disk which should do anything but interact with the platters magnetically, and if anything touches the platters they will scratch the magnetic surface off .... and there would be nothing left to interact with