Success!Recovery of data from DEAD drive(A Member needs HELP/ major Harddrive prob.)

07-01-2003, 01:57 AM	#16
yushy Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: CA Posts: 39	My software of choice for data recovery would be FinalData Enterprise. I have successfully recovered extremely important data with this software and it has never failed me. From hard disks to compact flash cards, this software works wonders! -- y
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07-01-2003, 06:46 AM	#17
Signdown Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 15	I use PC Inspector File Recovery. It's free to download here: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm I've heard that freezing a hard drive works sometimes but I've never tryed it.
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07-01-2003, 07:11 AM	#18
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,032	I have also PC Inspector File Recovery. It's a very good program to restore a file that you just deleted and it's not in the Recycle Bin. But I don't think that it's better than Get Data Back recovering files from a partition that Windows is unable to mout (anyway it is able to recover files in this situation). Some time ago I had to recover files from a partition that was completely destroyed for no aparent reason, with hundreds of files. Get Data Back was able to recover about 50 to 60% of all files (it recovered almost all files, but many were damaged, so I don't count them). In a FAT partition the chances of recovering a file increase if the drive has least fragmentation (another good reason to defragment FAT partitons.)

07-04-2003, 01:34 AM

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LPDad

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Location: Costa Mesa, CA

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OK, GREAT NEWS. Our member was able to completely recover his files from his DEAD harddrive. (I was more than a little skeptical)

Once again EVERYONE-- Computers Crash. your fault, my fault, microsoft's fault, Nobody's fault. Do not Ever be embar***ed to ask for help. Don't ever think that your question is too simple and that everyone will laugh at you. It does not work that way on this Website. We are all here to LEARN and to HELP.
We ALL make SIMPLE mistakes, especially me. No biggie. By Asking for help, and by SHARING your help with others we ALL benefit.
I know that this little thread is going to help an incredible number of people...(and All of the PCTT Mods and Admins are in this group--we probably need the most help of all...LOL)

There are 2 versions of this program... 1 for FAT and 1 for NTFS.
He used the FAT version.

Here is the feedback he gave to me (to share with you):

Quote:

GetdataBack feedback
Hi!

Sorry it took too long.

GetDataBack is one of the best lifesavers ever created. I haven't encountered a lot but I'm willing to bet anything that this product belongs up there! It should be called The Resuscitator or Rescue 911. It is definitely a must-have - especially for ulra-tweakers like you.

I have no idea how it works but it restored 99+% of the data contained in my busted HDDs (I've already used it on two).

Using it is prettly easy even for a novice like me. It's almost automatic except for a few clicks on the next button (like being guided by a wizard). It's almost impossible to mess-up. In case you do mess-up or you're not satisfied with the restoration job, you can always re-do the whole thing because it doesn't do it's thing in the hdd being scanned.

The steps are:

1. Scan(search) for (possible) drvies.

The choices are already ticked. You just un-tick choices you don't want found. I leave it as is.

2. Select source.

Here you select the physical drive, logical drive (have no idea what it is), Image files, Arrangement files, Physical remote drives to recover data from.

3. Select range and file system.

You can either search the whole drive or just part of it.

You can also select FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32. It is my practice not to tamper with things I don't understand so I left it at FAT32(default).

4. Select file system

DUH. I just clicked on next.

5. Recovery Tree.

VIOLA! My files as I saw them before they went inaccessible. Here you can check the integrity of the file through the built-in viewer or you can run it through it's ***ociated program. But it is not restored yet; what you see is just an image of the restoration job. You still have to select the files you want to recover and copy/restore them to your working hdd (there is a warning not to copy the files to the hdd being scanned).

Now if only GetDataBack can format an hdd which cmos does not detect. But I'm already more than satisfied with the results. After all, I Got my Data Back!

The whole process took only a few minutes and my baby's minutes-old pics have been recovered. Joshua (my baby) is now 3months old and I am confident that I will be able to show him these pics when he's grownup. Thanks to LPDad and Igalan! Thanks to GetDataBack!

I also downloaded mrgorilla's 50MB proggy but I haven't burned it on cd yet. Thanks to him just as well.

In the meantime, I will go back to being an anonymous visitor again watching you guys make very good use of this wonderful facility that it available to everybody.

Thank you very much,

JP

__________________________
I will try to get all of you more info.

We don't need no stink'n TechSupport
We ARE TechSupport.

LPDad
Administrator

07-04-2003, 02:08 AM	#20
Fister h3\|P \| 4m 5tUcK Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UVic Posts: 1,899	congrats!

07-04-2003, 03:27 AM	#21
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,032	I'm glad to hear that you could recover your files . Now it's time to take some steps to prevent this kind of disasters in the future: frequent backups . If you have a CD-R/RW and you have installed a packet writting program (InCD, DirectCD, DLA...) there are free programs to do selective backups to CD-RW. Once you have set the initial options you can do a backup in no time with a couple of clicks . I will start a thread about this and see what can we get .

07-04-2003, 04:52 AM	#22
Kungfucious mediatechie.com Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 816	YUP! its the best program out there... ive been using it since its first release!
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06-23-2004, 05:34 PM	#23
ISWidowMaker Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3	GetDataBack = Great program. I have experimented with it, and even after deleting a partition, then re-partitioning and formatting, I was still able to recover almost all the important data. If this cant find your data, it probably isn't there, and you'll need to spend ALOT of money to get it
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02-17-2005, 04:19 PM	#24
rambozoette Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 1	Watch Out for WinME This post is really, really far behind the rest, but I just wanted to include a side-note... The original problem described by Anon just happened to me - except I didn't make any hardware upgrades/moves/additions, etc.... I just booted. Like normal. And DOS couldn't detect the disk. Just like Anon, the PC that crashed was running ME. Now, I've always been of the opinion is that ME is really, REALLY unstable as it is, but after reading this I'm starting to think that ME may have played a pivotal role in the malfunction of my drive (altho I've never really trusted Scandisk either, you know?) Granted, my drive was probably burnt out on me as it was... but still. Either way, I'm stoked I found this forum while searching for the solution. Hopefully, using all of your excellent suggestions, I too will be able to recover most of my stuff off my poor, taxed drive. Oh, and if you or any loved ones still has ME on their box, get-it-off get-it-off get-it-off! Anything - even XP - is better than ME. Anything.

02-17-2005, 09:01 PM	#25
berks PCTT Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 3,735	Hey LP great to see you around haven't seen you in a long time! We did a review of the get data back software sometime ago here they are NTFS Fat I just recently had a bad crash on my PC and i am still trying to straighten things out. LP try to stop in once and awhile we miss you!
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07-11-2007, 06:54 AM	#26
blazinghammer Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1	A million thanks!!! Hello PCTech forum! I googled a search for hard drive data recovery and was led here! Get Data Back was mentioned...I d/l'd it for myself and I GOT MY DATA BACK!!! Praise God!! Thank you PCTech! Blessings, John Hernandez New Member

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