File rescue from a failing drive
When a flash drive or a memory card starts failing, an ordinary copy breaks off at the first unreadable sector and reports the file as lost. This tool retries, then reads the file block by block, keeps everything that answers and shows exactly which pieces are missing. The source is opened for reading only, and the survivors go to a folder you choose.
Press the button and point at the drive or the folder on it. The browser will ask for read permission — the tool never asks for write permission on the source.
You see how many files were found and how much they weigh, and which folders are already refusing to answer.
A folder on a healthy disk — the internal drive, another stick, anywhere but the one being rescued.
When it is over you are told what came back whole, what came back with holes and where exactly those holes are.
Copy what still reads before the drive gives out completely
Point at the folder on the failing drive. It is opened for reading only — you will choose a separate, healthy place for the rescued files afterwards.
Read this before you start
- Do not save the rescued files back onto the same drive. Every write on a failing drive may be its last, and it can overwrite the very data still waiting to be read.
- Do not format the drive and do not let the system “fix errors” on it until the copy is finished. A repair pass rewrites the file table — after it, what is left is much harder to find.
- Start with what matters most. If the drive is degrading, the first minutes are the ones with the best odds.
- The folder picker works in Chromium browsers — Chrome, Edge, Opera, Arc, Yandex Browser. Firefox and Safari have no such API, so the tool cannot open a folder there.
