whdd

HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool for Linux

WHDD is a HDD diagnostic and data recovery tool for Linux. It is capable of testing a hard drive with reading and writing, providing intuitive visualization of the process. Visualization or these tests is very similar to MHDD. Amongst others, there is a function for copying the device. The copying procedure algorithms are optimized for least harm to already-defective source device. The meaning of this becomes clear in a demo. WHDD may work with your hard drives on low level, sending ATA commands to device, the benefits are: * no system freeze while accessing damaged device (device is soft-reset on timeout); * better timing precision.

There is no official package available for openSUSE Leap 15.5

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The following distributions are not officially supported. Use these packages at your own risk.

CentOS:CentOS-9:Stream

SUSE:SLE-15:GA