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.
DDrescue-GUI 1.4 is the latest available version for Linux Ubuntu Systems. The newly released DDRescue-GUI 1.4 comes with a fully redesigned GUI. It’s now much faster, sleeker and smoother, as well as more intuitive and helpful to the user. There are a lot of other improvements for Linux, especially for efficiency: the new GUI displays much more helpful information to the user during recovery, but even when all of it is visible, it remains as efficient as the last version, as well as starting more quickly. There is also a nice new authentication dialog for both Linux and OS X.
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