It's has a quick lost partition scan feature (does this automatically), reconstructs file systems and it can do what Testdisk does: Restore/undelete partitions in-place as well as repair boot sectors. DMDE also has some features that allows it to be used in tandem with ddrescue, for example it can export it's cloning log to a ddrescue map file. For file recovery software it actually has decent cloning on board, even allows for timeouts, direct SCSI/ATA and such, which is more than most tools. If you don't touch unstable drives, cloning could be done using DMDE itself too.

Can be used in tandem and then allows for example even advanced stuff as targeted imaging. HDDSuperClone and DMDE can be purchased as a bundle, sort of. You need something to clone drives with (ideally) and file recovery software. In fact I do not even like it for photo recovery because of the many false positives and recovery of useless thumbnails and such.Ī 'better' tool potentially recovers client data complete with file names with original folder structure. In some cases like an SD Card with only photos not a big deal perhaps, but different story on a hard drive containing 500000 files. But PhotoRec only does raw recovery, so no filenames, no folder structure and lots of false positives. Basically it's no more than a clumsy undeleter. Sure Testdisk allows you to copy files, but won't handle more severe file system damage. Bit like, if you have a hammer as your only tool, everything becomes a nail. If you manage to get away with Testdisk and PhotoRec then I guess that's okay, but you're basically limiting yourself.

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