Trying to recover Image done with Freeware Version of DMDE and repair the unallocated Clusters.

Do I first copy the Image to the newly mounted harddisk that replaced the damaged sata and then run the repair, or directly from external harddrive run a tool that then repairs the Image on the internal / external harddisk?

I tried running seatools for dos 2.23 to find what the exact harddisk error is, but it doesnt recognize the harddisk (only seatools for win recognizes the harddrive).If Seatools doesn't recognise it you are dealing most likely with a HDD that has passed it's useful lifespan.I agree, but if DMDE was ABLE to backup the drive then I must be able to recover them even if I use the free Version.

Lisa; any comments?If you say so...if the images are on that HDD you're outta luck.
Lisa may tell you different so wait for her.Hi

I have checked myself with a image made with the free version and  discussed your problem with DMDE and the free version will not recover from an image. I have checked opening the DMDE image with other data recovery programs and the only program that worked was a PURCHASED copy of Stella phoenix.    To get that faculty you need to buy the program.

Thank you very much for your time and efforts, much appreciated. The data is not extremely important, so I wouldnt want to pay for the Software since I am looking at this as a kind of an experiement. I would LIKE to try and sort this recovery of RAW Image file out with one of the many Freeware Tools available.

So the Freeware Edition of DMDE can be used to do an Image/copy of the Partition, but there is no way to use the data? That seems completely ridiculous. What will the DMDE recover from then?
Is there really no other Freeware /Opensource program than can recover BIN-files appart from stella phoenix? (for e.g. File Scavenger Data Recovery Utility, GetDataBack, MiniTool Partition WIZARD HOME Edition, MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition, Pandora - or opensource like http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Dump_002fRestore-Files.html, etc.? - I have not tried any of these yet for recovery of BIN-file)

I am now just going to test Remo Recovery (http://www.remosoftware.com/how-to-recover-iso-image-file), otherwise I think the only Option I have left would be to try "Testdisk" on the fauly harddisk, but that would take another two weeks for it go through all the Clusters!

I would appreciate more help or comments, possibly one or two People have experience with above freeware Tools or with Binary Image file recovery?