Linux. has anyone tried ddrescue-GUI for damaged hard drive recovery ?

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easybullet3

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wondering if anyone can give a review of ddrescue-GUI and compare it to ddrescue.
i am not so confident with the Linux terminal comand-line, so the GUI version feels easier for me.
but I want to know if anyone can give their view of this tool.

Thanks
 
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ex_bubblehead
What distribution are you running?

ddrescue, along with the equally useful testdisk, is in the software repository of all the major distros and is installed via the supplied package manager. No separate download or installation required. If this is your first foray into Linux then you most definitely should not be installing things outside the package managers.
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ddrescue-GUI is nothing more than a pretty little python wrapper around the actual command line ddrescue. If you're going to use ddrescue it behooves you to learn the command line as the gui (at least the last time I looked at it) doesn't encapsulate every single command line option and switch.
 
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so you recommend me to just learn to do ddrescue in the command line ?
ok.
i noticed there were TWO files that ddrescue downloaded:

ddrescue-1.21.tar.lz [73kb]
ddrescue-1.21.tar.lz.sig [1kb]

since this is my first attempt with linux, (excuse me If I am asking the wrong questions)

do I have to INSTALL these files {as I would install an exe file in windows) ?
or, am I supposed to place them in an easily-acceible folder and then 'refer' to that folder when when I invoke their names in the command line ?
 
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What distribution are you running?

ddrescue, along with the equally useful testdisk, is in the software repository of all the major distros and is installed via the supplied package manager. No separate download or installation required. If this is your first foray into Linux then you most definitely should not be installing things outside the package managers.
 
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most software for linux is available via the repository. sort of like an apple store/ google play store.

For Debian, Ubuntu, Mint open terminal and type(sudo is run command with admin privileges):

Code: 
sudo apt-get install ddrescue

similarly all you need to do to update your system is to update package list and apply upgrades:

Code: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

for all other distro's the process is similar but may use a different 'package manager' than apt-get
 
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ddrescue can do some things but a really damaged hard disk, with damaged sectors or scratched surface won't do much with that tool

any gui is just a small app that calls the real consoloe tool so f you don't want to use console, the gui is for you

use your repository

also remember that if the hard disk is too damaged photorec could be as good to recover single files as ddrescue but without the image step, just generate files in a folder from what it can find

photorec is another console tool but is very simple to use, also there is a gui for it, however it doen't save names of the files as most damaged hard disks won't have a good enough partition to offer this information, it is great to recover files from formatted drives like hard disks and usb or sd cards
 
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