myrescue Harddisc Rescue / News: Recent posts

myrescue got a few more options to deal with discs with randomly scattered dying sectors - just like the one of a friend of mine clicking along on my desk right now...

The new options:
- J to randomly jump around on the disc, trying to pick a sector here, a sector there, ...
- G to stay in known-good regions
- F to stay away from known-bad regions

This version adds an option to abort on the first
read error.

Additionally it fixes a (usually irrelevant) bug concerning short reads.

New features:
options to skip failed blocks and reverse reading direction
updated manpages

myrescue is a program to rescue the still-readable data from a damaged harddisk with the ability to quickly skip out of damaged areas to first rescue the undamaged sectors and come back later. 0.9.0 is the first (beta) release.

Our premature version can be obtained by CVS. See details on the Sourceforge Project Page. It still lacks:

- pure C
- option processing
- Makefile (or even better autoconf etc.)
- small code cleanup
- manpage

Compile it with g++, that's all, folks.