Wasted $120 on a 'certified' data recovery tool that was just a wrapper

Bought this tool from a shady site last year that claimed it could recover drives with bad sectors, turned out it was just a GUI for a free open source program. Lost two hours and got nothing back because the drive was already too far gone by then. Anyone else get burned by one of those rebranded utilities?

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hannahm391mo ago

Bought a "pro grade" hard drive cloner once that was just ddrescue with a $60 sticker slapped on it. Made me feel real smart when I realized I could've done it for free and probably gotten better results.

vera_palmer1mo ago

$60 for a glorified ddrescue script? Honestly @hannahm39 I would have been furious. I've seen that exact thing with "disk imaging tools" that are literally just shell wrappers around open source stuff. Ngl I'd rather just use ddrescue directly and know exactly whats happening under the hood.

the_hayden1mo ago

Right? Feels like a total scam.