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CBD (Copy Bad Disk) is a file copying tool designed to recover data from drives with bad sectors. It skillfully skips unreadable areas, preventing failures and salvaging as much content as possible for repair.

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  • Pros

    • Copies files despite bad sectors, preventing crashes.
    • Recovers and salvages maximum data from damaged drives.
    • Skips current files or speeds up copying process.
    • Generates log of unreadable byte positions for repair.
    • Seamlessly integrates into Windows Explorer context menu.

  • Cons

    • Copied files have unreadable bytes replaced with zeros.
    • Requires external software to repair damaged files.
    • Users must select 'Paste Bad File' from context menu.
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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Vista
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
2,184
Downloads Last Week
2
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Developer’s Description

By Goodlucksoft
Copy files without any clutter or disturbance.
CBD(Copy Bad Disk) can copy files regardless of bad sectors. CBD skips the bad sectors and continue to copy the rest content of the file so it will not hang, freeze or fail. With well-designed algorithms, CBD can recover files and salvage as much data as possible from hard drives with bad sectors. During the copying process, you can choose to skip the current file or speed up by allowing CBD to ignore more sectors after encountering a bad sector. CBD generates a log file recording the positions of unreadable bytes of the copied file so that you can repair the damaged file using other software. Those unreadable bytes are replaced with 0s in the destination file. As integrated in the context menu of Windows Explorer, using CBD is like ordinary file copying/pasting operations with the difference that you need to choose the "Paste Bad File" option instead of the "Paste" option when right-clicking in the destination folder. To back up a whole HDD with bad sectors, just select/copy all files on it.
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