Ddrescue – Data recovery tool for Ubuntu Linux (CLI). Install DDrescue-GUI on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. Use DDrescue-GUI to recover data from corrupted hard drives and flash memories on Ubuntu.
DDRescue-GUI is a powerful tool (with graphical user interface) to recover data from corrupted hard drives and flash memories (USB drives) on Linux Ubuntu. To be more specific, DDRescue-GUI uses the dump (dd) tool.
dd [dump tool] is a command-line utility (tool) for Unix and Linux operating systems to convert and copy files. In simple words, dd is a command line tool to recover data. It has another variation, sdd used to disk dump and restore to and from tape or file; copy and/or reblock.
Install DDrescue-GUI 1.4 on Ubuntu
Install DDrescue-GUI 1.4 on Ubuntu using the following commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hamishmb/myppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ddrescue-gui
Once installed, its easy to use “ddrescue”. The basi syntax of the “ddrescue” command is as follows:
ddrescue input-file-path output-file-path logfile
If you want more help, run the following command to get more info on the usage:
$ info ddrecsue
To uninstall and remove ddrescue-gui tool from Ubuntu, run:
$ sudo apt-get remove ddrescue-gui