Know of any good hard drive recovery software?

June 18, 2005 9:56 AM from

My wife's hard drive crashed and I'm looking for a good recovery program. Anyone have any good or bad experiences? Thanks!

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Reply #1 June 18, 2005 10:56 AM from

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yeah i had once before 2 years. Go get Stellar Phoenix Pro software.
Hope this may work out for ya. i recovered about 96% of my lost data.

Reply #2 June 18, 2005 2:19 PM from

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I've heard many great things about SpinRite. It's supposed to be the cat's meow. Look at the video linked on the main page.

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Reply #3 June 19, 2005 6:50 AM from

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BartPE. Used it. It provides a Windows-Like interface, and allows you to plug in portable hardware, and free. You can use the file browser to browse your entire hard drive and external drives. It can recover anything you choose to your portable drive and transfer to another computer so you can reformat.

Reply #4 June 19, 2005 8:07 PM from

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Tried Spinrite. Didn't work. I think the drive is too far gone. Can only recognize 10MB of 80GB.
Hope I can get a refund. $89.00.
I'm not sure about BartPE. I don't want to install an os, just recover data from it.

Reply #5 June 19, 2005 8:57 PM from

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Have a look at http://www.ubcd4win.com/

It utilises BartPE and you end up with a bootable CD (much like BartPE) but it has a load of included utilities that you can use to diagnose & recover disks etc. It can even be setup to access the 'net so you can download drivers etc.

I've used it for recovering registry hives etc very successfully.

Reply #6 June 20, 2005 12:23 AM from

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I am running GetDataBack right now. Looks promising.

Reply #7 June 20, 2005 7:38 AM from

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I can see a lot of file names, but everything looks like gibberish.

Reply #8 June 20, 2005 5:29 PM from

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I'm not sure about BartPE. I don't want to install an os, just recover data from it.

It's just a bootable CD. D/l PE Builder, put an XP cd into the drive, and it will build BartPE into a folder, and then burn it to a CD. Not installing an OS.

Reply #9 June 30, 2005 11:45 AM from

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I have had good luck with Spinrite here.

Reply #10 July 27, 2011 5:37 AM from

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RyanBanks, this thread is from 2005. Unlikely the folks are still having the problem.

Reply #11 July 27, 2011 8:15 AM from

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Is the hard drive still in the freezer?

Reply #12 July 27, 2011 8:39 AM from

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seriously? a 6 year old thread? come on, dude!

Reply #13 July 27, 2011 8:53 AM from

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