![]() ![]() When saving the data there is an option that you can select that will skip files with bad blocks. ![]() If the file system mounts, which most of the time it does, you are able to select which directories or files you would like to recover and save them to a target drive, network share, etc. Unfortunately it gives no details about the firmware problems it finds or what repairs it is making to the firmware. If the Rapid Nebula detects a problem with the firmware it gives three different options to repair it ranging from only temporarily editing it in the hard drive’s RAM to saving permanent changes to the ROM and service area of the drive. When the diagnostic completes it gives some brief results such as the percent of health of each of the reader heads. Then the RSA connects to the Rapid Nebula which is the online component that the RSA software that diagnoses problems with the drive and automatically applies predefined tweaks and optimizations. The RSA opens up a window where you enter the drives brand, type, model number, and a brief description of how the drive is behaving. Once the RS is connected to the RSA software the next step is to run the built in diagnostic. The RapidSpar Assistant is the Windows application used to interface with the RS device. The RS unit connects the source drive to the target drive and has a USB3 cable that connects it to a Windows workstation. For more in depth demonstrations of how the RS is used I would suggest checking out some of the reviews on YouTube. Here is a brief description of how the device is used. It took several months to get the demo unit but about a month ago I received a demo RS and gave it a try. I came across the post on Technibble about the demo program for the new RapidSpar so I signed up. Data recovery has always fascinated me so in the last year I have been making an effort to read up on some of the more advanced data recovery methods. I am far from being an expert in data recovery so please forgive me if my descriptions are lacking in technical detail. For anything that we could not recover using those tools we would send to Drive Savers. For imaging drives that are failing badly we were using DDRescue. In the almost 7 years I have worked for this shop I have gotten fairly good at using logical data recovery programs such as R-studio (Mac and PC), Get Data Back, Data Rescue, CnW, Stellar Phoenix, and Reclaime for RAIDS. I work for a computer repair shop in Seattle, WA that also performs quite a bit of data recovery for our clients. ![]()
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