Hard Drive recovery - interesting results

[david]

Ok, I thought I had lost my Fujistsu drive - large clunking sounds -
Master Slave Failure on boot - put the drive in the freezer and that
didn't work.

Thought it was dead in the water.

I ran a program (demo version) called 'Virtual Labs Data Recovery
Software' - and low and behold it shows me all of my files and which
can be recovered. Yeah, the drive clunked and whirred, but they are
obviously not dead to the world ! So my hard drive is not lost
completely - it must be the boot or something. It is far too
expensive for me to recover the data - it is not important enough for
me to spend the money on, but it will be a pain-in-the-arse getting it
otherwise.

I wonder if there is a free program out there that will help me to get
these files?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Damien]

"david" <johnsonholding@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I wonder if there is a free program out there that will help me to get
these files?

Try a program called "Easy Recovery". It's not free (although you can
download it if you look hard enough), but it is well worth the money. Even
after deleting partitions and recreating them and then formatting them as
well, it was still able to recover every file on the disk. I don't know how
it will handle a drive with possible physical damage, but it's damn good
anyway and worth giving a go.

Damien

 

[Chaos Master]

I found ancient runes from david[johnsonholding@yahoo.com] in the floor of
sci.electronics.repair:

I wonder if there is a free program out there that will help me to get
these files?

Try searching for a company named 'LC Technology' (IIRC). They made a very cheap
recovery software. Or search for a program named 'mLost', it's in Brazilian
portuguese but it's easy to use.

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[Alan Harriman]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:35:16 -0200, Chaos Master
<linear_x-SPAM-KNIFE@hotmail.com> wrote:

in the floor of
sci.electronics.repair:

I wonder if there is a free program out there that will help me to get
these files?

Try searching for a company named 'LC Technology' (IIRC). They made a very cheap
recovery software.

I purchased LC Technology's "Recovery98" a while back to recover data after a
hard drive failure. I've also used it a couple times since. Depending on the
type of data loss, sometimes the data is more or less recoverable, sometimes
not. In many cases, it takes considerable detective work, as often the folder
names are only ID'd as cluster numbers. But by searching sub folders and files
it's often possible to determine the layout of the file system. It helps to know
what specific data you are looking for, as you can always reinstall the
operating system and applications. For one customer, I was able to recover a
couple CD's worth of photos, including family photos, weddings, etc.

Alan Harriman




Or search for a program named 'mLost', it's in Brazilian
>portuguese but it's easy to use.