sectorforge
Rescue data from failing drives: ddrescue-style imaging, partition detection, NTFS recovery incl. deleted files, and file carving. Portable for Windows and Linux.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 109 upvotes (top 27%) · 0 views
Niche: disaster recovery and data restoration tools · 50 launches, 10 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- data-recovery
- ddrescue
- disk-imaging
- file-carving
- ntfs
- rust
- +1 more
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Could you build this?
Partial A GUI and imaging workflow is vibe-codeable, but robust raw-disk imaging, NTFS MFT parsing for deleted files, and file carving that is reliable on damaged media require low-level filesystem expertise and heavy testing.
What it would actually take: Build in a systems language such as C, C++, or Rust, with raw block-device access on Windows and Linux, a ddrescue-style imaging engine that handles bad sectors and resumable passes, and partition-table parsing (MBR and GPT). The hard parts are NTFS recovery of deleted entries from MFT records and signature-based file carving that avoids false positives, which demand deep knowledge of filesystem internals and a large corpus of damaged test images to validate against.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 578 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #155 of 579 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 360 days after the earliest competitor.
- Partition-Recovery-Hetman · github · 2026-10-25 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- disktree · github · 2026-09-24 · 1784 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- DriveForge · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- spacemapper · github · 2026-10-21 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- easeus-partition-master-menu · github · 2026-10-04 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- DiskTriage · hn · 2026-09-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ScannerFMX · github · 2026-10-21 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- BLR NAS Data Recovery Tool · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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