Looking for software that can list the files that are on a damaged part of the disk

Hi,

I am Looking for windows software that can list the files that are on
a damaged part of a windows drive. The damaged part can not be fixed.
I need to know which of my files are damaged so I can see if they
still can be used or if they are too severly damaged to be usefull at
all.

What is the best windows software available that can do this.

Thank you.

Bye.

 

PCI File Recovery.
www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

If the files can be read, this will do them.
BUT you will need to recover to another partition\drive.

 

Thank you. I had a look. For now however I am not looking for recovery
software.That would probably be the next step but I know that the
files cannot be recovered because the damage is too severe. I am
looking for software that can scan a windows drive find damaged
sectors or other things damaged and tell me which files are affected
by the damage. OK, I can image that software that can do this can also
do file recovery but it should not do ONLY file recovery like PCI File
Recovery. I am also not intrested in deleted or lost files. I am just
interested in damaged files. Still thank you for your reply.
I hope there is software that can do something as specific as this.

 

Anon.

From what I understand you want to know the names of the files that have
sectors of data that have been 'damaged'.
(scan a windows drive find damaged sectors or other things damaged and tell
me which files are affected")
To do this you need to be able to work 'back' from the damaged sector to the
one before, then the sector before that etc until you end up at the FAT
entry revealing the 'file name'. Nice idea but unfortunately there is a
problem with this, as far as I know each sector records where the next
sector is 'not' where the previous sector was. i.e. you can read 'forwards'
but you can't read backwards.

No doubt there is software about that will read a drives entire contents and
recreate this backwards chain, however in your OP you said "damaged part can
not be fixed" This implies there is unreadable sectors or sectors with
scrambled data. In this case recreating the backwards chain is highly
unlikely.

My suggestion is to simply open each file in turn and those that won't open
have 'damaged' sectors.

Cheers
Paul.