Posted August 18, 200618 yr k one of my hard drives just died on me and i need to get some data back off it, anyone know of some good hard drive recovery software? or anyone else know a good way i could maybe get the data back?
August 18, 200618 yr http://www.runtime.org/downloads.htm Assuming you use a NTFS setup: GetDataBack for NTFS V3.03 Just a demo, but a crack version is around. I got my shit back even after I formatted the hardrive into NTFS and my old data was FAT32.
August 18, 200618 yr This little trick should work. http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3050/zomgjs9.jpg
August 18, 200618 yr This little trick should work. http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3050/zomgjs9.jpg Are you incredibly dumb or just a troll in training?
August 18, 200618 yr Are you incredibly dumb or just a troll in training? Must be a troll, nobody on internet is really that stupid.
August 18, 200618 yr Atleast i tried to help. http://www.mayer-johnson.com/ProductImages/130/BIG_make-face-sad.jpg
August 19, 200618 yr It depends on the kind of failure you've had. if it's just massive corruption, your best bet is Encase forensic, it's what the old bill use to catch paedos etc. If the head hit the disc, take it to a data recovery expert.
August 19, 200618 yr It depends on the kind of failure you've had. if it's just massive corruption, your best bet is Encase forensic, it's what the old bill use to catch paedos etc. If the head hit the disc, take it to a data recovery expert. indeed.
August 19, 200618 yr Root, i got just the thing for you. its called erdcommander and its actually like a live linux except its almost like a live os built right onto the disc helping you to doa system restore by seeing the restore points on your comp even though you can't boot to windows or even letting youre cover files that are corrupt etc. read the reviews. if you want it pm me or d/l off torrentspy. took me awhile to d/l so maybe aim is faster? also if you don't feel llike buying a new hd and your sectors and its heads are fucked then you can use a nice little prog to help recover corrupt files like erd commander does except it fixes the sectors and shit on the disc. takes a couple of hours but gets teh job done. that prog is hdd regenerator if you d/l but its pretty small so i can send it to you through email even. Hope this helps.
August 19, 200618 yr Author ive been trying GetDataBack.For.NTFS seems to work well but keeps crashing and i get the blue screen of death, and i tried easy recovery professional but that just dont work. ill give u a rundown of what actualy happend, the hd is a maxator 200gb, its not my main drive its just used to store things, while copying some files from it, it stopped and said could not find the drive, so i look in the disk management and see that the drive says its not initialised, so i try to re-initalise it but when i do nothing happens, i tryed reset etc, then even put it into my other box and still the same problem. so i go through the little hd setup thing it assigns a new drive letter, i say no i dont want to format, try look on the drive and all it says is that it needs to be formeted, i dont want to do this cos i dont want to lose the data, but after looking at other solutions i did a quick format so it just deletes all the normal system file crap so i can use a data recovery easy on it, the HD can now be used, but im not gonna put anything on it yet, i run recovery software and they keep crashing with the blue screen of death, and also randomly the SAME problem happens again the disk says it cant be found and cant be initalised .... the same problem twice, hardware or software? im thinking the hd itself is prob fucked, maybe thats why the recovery isn't working because its dieing half way through and the software doesn't know how to cope with it. ps thx for your help and suggestions apart from beano who will prob be getting a ban sometime soon
August 19, 200618 yr r00t, it has to be a hardware issue at this point because plugging it into the other box should've fixed the issue, unless for some reason windows suddenly became uncompatible with Maxtor Drives. I actually have a 200 gig Maxtor Drive, and I had an issue when I first got the drive, it had to do with something about Windows not being able to handle drives over 144 Gigs or something and it did a short little patch on the OS and it fixed it, I wonder if maybe that got undone somehow.. Thats the only other thing I can think of, but I'm sure a lot of people know more than I do. Best bet: Take it to a professional and have them remove the data off of it because it seems like its become a physical error now. edit: I don't know, it may have been another company but I remember reading something about there being a batch of HDs from Maxtor that were defective, but seeing as how yours was running, this again doesn't help at all :\
August 19, 200618 yr aww dude that sucks i have had a few drives die in the past just like that i usually unplug em and read em w/ my usb ide/sata adaptor at a later time and that solves the problem, sounds odd how u had to reformat in order to get it to read again, as tomtheman said, prob a hardware issue give it a go w/ any old undelete program however dont make the problem any worse then it is i repair computers for ppl as a side job and maxtors are the drives going to shit lately
August 22, 200618 yr This little trick should work. http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3050/zomgjs9.jpg You're kidding right? He said his hard-drive died, which means he can't boot into Windows or any other OS. :O_o:
August 22, 200618 yr r00t, if you thing its a hd erro rthan you can d/l hdd regenerator offline and use that to fic the sectors so you can get your shit off the dirve. Also did you try ERD Commander? IF system restore was monitoring tht drive then when you do reintalise it, you can use erd commander to regain the files back since it allows you to see your previous system restores even after your hd fucks up like when you get the blue screen of death cause its like an os running off of a disc. (similar to live linux) Tell me how this works out. :confused:
August 22, 200618 yr As long as your bios sees the drive its fine, let windows format it (quick format) if it doesnt find it. If you get a blue screen then its a software issue. Another proggie. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Works great. If it has some really important shit, then you can expect to pay a couple of hundred for a pro to recover that shit
