Safecopy Recovers Data from Hard Drives and Other Media, Keeps Working When Other Tools Give Up [Downloads]

Safecopy Recovers Data from Hard Drives and Other Media, Keeps Working When Other Tools Give Up [Downloads]:
from Lifehacker by Alan Henry

Linux: Whether it's a troublesome hard drive or an old DVD that's spitting out I/O errors, Safecopy is a Linux utility that will keep plugging away, trying to recover data, until it gets to the end of the media. Most data recovery tools give up and force you to start the recovery process again once it starts running into those types of errors, but Safecopy presses on, resorting to low-level read and copy operations if it has to. More »