Hard drive recovery software

Post by **simon** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:19 pm

Anyone know of any good and free software to recover data from a hard drive? Mine got corrupted last night and has loads of photos and stuff I haven't backed up

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:16 pm

surely you can just download more porn again??

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:43 pm

Si,

Download dot com - my uncle and I tried this excercise as i have lost all my photos - dont reinstall or anything else, whip out the harddrive and then we went and bought this cool device which allows you to plug in your hard drive and read it off another computer.

Give me a shout, maybe do it on Thursday?

Dave

Post by **simon** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:20 pm

I've got a spare hard drive so I installed XP onto it and I've got the knackered one plugged in as a slave drive now. The problem is that the file system is shagged so it can't be read normally by Windows. I've downloaded software to recover the files but it's ony done 14% since 11:30 last night

and that's only jpegs!

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:15 pm

Hmmmmmmm - your in control then!

Dave

Post by **simon** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:17 pm

Post by ed » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:01 pm

Bad luck si, hope you get it sorted!

Post by **simon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:56 pm

Good news

Managed to recover all my photos to the 2nd hard drive last night and I reckon Ill be able to get all my other files too

Cant remember the name of the program but it scanned the hard drive and recreated the directory structure within 2 minutes, great stuff.

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:16 pm

Si

I use On Tracks EasyRecovery Pro, which as long as you can see the hard drive, ie not a mechanical crash, recovers virtually everything, even after partitioning and formatting. Takes an hour or two for a well used 120gb drive.

Its commercial software of course, but free to OAP's<BG>

tut

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:22 pm

Was ti the one we got down on Bit Torrent ?

caleebra · Post by **caleebra** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:23 pm

Good news Simon, may I recommend the future use of Norton Ghost?

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:35 pm

<geek>RAID dude RAID. Speccing up a new system and looking to put in 4 * 18GB Ultra SCSI3 in RAID5.</geek>

Post by **simon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:25 pm

It was actually a program called File Scavenger 3.0
I spoke to Simon Ironside (Yahoo member) last night and he suggested ghosting and running chkdisk as I'd not run it yet. While I was trying to get the ghost s/w from him, I downloaded Scavenger and tried it and it worked perfectly.

The only problem now is my spare hard drive is 12Gb but the broken one is 40Gb

So I'm now backing up onto my laptop and intend to get another HDD to backup to regularly and every time I have new photos.

Cheers for the help Sanjoy

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:10 pm

18GB Sanjoy?

They must have been hard to find<BG>

tut

Post by **simon** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:21 pm

Gonna go and buy myself an 80Gb usb HDD tomorrow and back everything up. Place near my work sells them for about £50.