Portable Disk Recoup

Long-term use of computer hardware components wears them off, and it can be pretty frustrating to lose important bits of data stored on your hard disk drive. On the bright side of things, there are methods of backing up information on your PC, and Portable Disk Recoup is a suitable example in this regard, helping you out as long as there’s no physical damage to the disk in question.

As the name clearly points out, this is the edition of Disk Recoup which doesn’t take you through a setup process, so registry entries remain intact. It’s also possible to have it stored on a thumb drive and used directly from it, just to perfectly work with the damaged device, especially if there’s only one drive.

Note that the disk drive of interest doesn’t need to have any physical damage for everything to work out. This might mean that the application can only handle simple sessions, but it’s capable of going through bad or corrupt sectors, letting you get as much data otherwise inaccessible through conventional methods.

It’s possible to attempt a recovery mode from either a fixed or removable drive, with neat support for IDE and SATA drives, USB, CD, DVD, Zip drives, memory cards, and more. Make sure to plug it in before running the application, while for hard drives, it’s best to check whether or not the computer BIOS can read them.

Needless to say that it’s a good idea to cease all other activities in the process to prevent writing additional data in sectors on the damaged drive. Operation statistics are displayed, just so you get an idea of the time left. The destination can either be a DSK image or writing data entirely on a new partition, given there’s enough free space.

All things considered, we can state that Portable Disk Recoup is the type of tool to try out when you really need to grab bits of data from a damaged or corrupt drive. It’s possible to target a whole array of storage devices and save content either as an image, or to be written directly on a different, stable drive.