Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier - Copy Those Damaged or Corrupted Files

RoadKil.Net - Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier

"Product Description

Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.

Features

The level of data recovery can be changed to enable very intense data recovery through to skipping damaged files completely. The data recovery process can be paused and resumed mid file. Logging can be enabled to record details on transferred files, their integrity and offsets of any errors. The programs language can be changed between English and German. Multiple directories structures or single files can be dragged and dropped onto unstoppable copier for transfer.

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Nice...

There have been times in the recent past where this would have come in handy.

There's both a Windows and Linux version, with the Windows version updated just yesterday (8/21/2006).

(via The Portable Freeware Collection - Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier)