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Restore Lost Files With DiskDigger

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
Computerworld; By Jon L. Jacobi 		Mail this story
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I've got to hand it to Dmitry Brant, the man writes a mean utility. DiskDigger (free) is more than the usual undelete utility offered gratis as a leader product. It goes "beneath the file system" (Dmitry's line, which I plan to borrow regularly in the future) to recover data on a sector-by-sector basis from hard drives, thumb drives, etc. Think of these sectors as little boxes containing data that are arranged in tracks/circles on your hard drive.

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Comments (3)

ComputerBob ·
Isn't DiskDigger a Windows-only utility, or can it also run in Linux?
techiem2 ·
From the download page it's apparently Windows only. And no mention of what the actual license is.
azerthoth ·
A cursory search is its license is listed as : free.

Whatever that is. It doesn't say.

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