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- judicar, on 05/04/2009, -2/+25Just a list of undelete programs, this won't do ***** for data loss due to a damaged file system.
- Maddoktor2, on 05/04/2009, -0/+11What's up with these comments? People sharing favorite apps and experiences with them are getting dugg down?
Man, I miss when Digg was for geeks and comments like those used to get dugg up instead.
I mean, WTF, Digg? I thought we were better than this?
Ok, you may now bury this observation. - Akraz, on 05/04/2009, -3/+10One of the comments from the article:
"I just used Recuva on Friday to save my English teacher's photos of her daughter's First Communion. She is bringing me a treat now :)"
OHH HO BOY WE GOT OURSELVES A FEMALE PEDO - wjlaw100, on 05/04/2009, -2/+8The Hard Disk Freezer trick.....FTW!
- draxenato, on 05/04/2009, -0/+5I know what you mean, it's kinda odd, I've picked up on a couple of tools I didn't know about before reading this, what's going on ?
- Corgy, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4Dd has saved my ass on many occasions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) - jasdf, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4Don't you mean D:/ good work?
- maz2331, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3Your case sounds like a drive that was truly FUBAR. The scratching sound was the heads scraping the actual magnetic coating off the disk platters. They can't recover what physically isn't there to recover.
- okcomputer01, on 05/04/2009, -1/+4rorrim anyone?...
...while you're here my fav hard drive tool is GetDataBackForNtfs/Fat, Flawless. Not free but its worth every kb of the crack... - scubachef11, on 05/04/2009, -2/+5I wish I would have tried to use these. Please do not use Data Recovery Corp's services. They claimed that they processed hard drives for the government essentially promised me that I could have my data recovered. The cost was going to be 1600. They dropped it to 400. I paid them 240 dollars to initiate. They said my data was not recoverable and I did not get anything recovered on my hard drive (500 gigs of music and movies).
I would like to hear other people's experiences physical data recovery. My situation was pretty ***** and I'm still wondering if they scammed me or if my data really wasn't recoverable. I dropped it from a height of 3 feet with consistent scratching sounds but... I don't know. Anyone? - philb0t5000, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3My external hard drive decided to crash on my a few months back. My comp still recognized something was connected and I stupidly tried to reformat the drive. Ended up having to turn it off in the middle of that because my computer froze. I ran TestDisk then once I discovered it and it retreived everything. It was def. a damaged system but TestDisk still let me copy everything on to another drive. On the plus side it also found some music and movies I had deleted a while back to free up space that now fit onto my new hard drive.
- silence7, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3MiniPE ! !
- chongli, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3DiskWarrior is great for repairing HFS+. As for dealing with bad blocks and other hardware trouble, the best in the business is SpinRite. It's saved my ass many times.
- draxenato, on 05/04/2009, -0/+2I've been in this unhappy situation twice in the last year, and I know it's stating the bloody obvious but there's nothing that beats regular backups. It's such an important point I'll make it again, there's nothing that beats regular backups.
Over the years as I've upgraded my systems I've kept the old drives that now seem too small to be useful, but with an external enclosure, preferably one that'll use both PATA (IDE) and SATA I now use those old drives to archive essential data. I don't use any fancy backup system, my data is 99% video and music anyways so it's mostly unchanged after it's downloaded, I just copy each series, album etc over to an old drive as its completed (or when I get twitchy). The enclosure I use cost me 30 quid, handles SATA and PATA and also provides an extra two USB ports from its built in powered hub. It's already saved my ass once.
When a drive starts clicking, as yours has, there's a couple of things you can try.
First, freeze the drive, I mean literally. Put it in airtight bag, a lunchbag with a zippy will do, expel as much air as possible (to prevent condensation) and stick it in your freezer. IME make sure it's been frozen for a solid (pardon the pun) 48 hours before removing it. Check there's no sign of moisture, condensation or ice on the drive, if it's clear then plug it back in and start copying the data off it right away. If you think it might have gotten a little damp then let it thaw at room temp, do NOT put it anywhere near any heat source including direct sunlight, for 24 hours and give it a whirl. You might get lucky.
Second tip, try linux. I kid you not, the linux drivers can (in most situations) be more tolerant of a flaky drive or controller. Boot your system from a live CD, when it comes up attach an external drive and make sure its mounted (most distros do this automatically these days) then start copying the data from your duff drive.
Notice I've always said COPY data, not move it. Copying is a read only operation which puts much less stress on a fragile drive. Moving involves read/write operations which are more likely to go bang if your drive is marginal.
Good luck, I've been where you are and I know it ain't a happy place. - Bmarofsky, on 05/04/2009, -3/+5FTK Imager is very good as well.
- mabsark, on 05/05/2009, -0/+2I was thinking the same thing, then I noticed a "Data Recovery Group" link posted by jclimber123 who joined digg on May 4th, 2009. Coincidence? I think not. Buried the ***** and reported.
- mabsark, on 05/05/2009, -0/+2Tinyurls suck, I want to know where a link goes BEFORE I click it, so I did bury you.
- SolidForce, on 05/04/2009, -0/+2That actual way that Data Rescue restores the data is horrible. If the organization of recovered files was better, that program would be number one.
- pwr4, on 05/04/2009, -1/+3SpinRite has worked great for me. I only wish it could work on flash drives.
- rif42, on 05/04/2009, -2/+4For file recovery I have used ZAR - Zero Assumption Recovery
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ (shareware)
and can also suggest Convar - PC Inspector File Recovery
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info ... (freeware) - judicar, on 05/04/2009, -0/+2I used to think the same thing until this happened last year ...
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/15/joyent-suffer ... - smrekar, on 05/04/2009, -3/+4ZFS for the win!
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -1/+2I'd recommend Data Rescue II for Mac. It's not free, I had to buy it after my ***** Lacie 1TB external committed suicide. It recovered every last bit of data I had so I guess it was worth the price.
Has a good GUI and some neat features, like you can pause recovery and continue later from where you paused which is helpful if it's going to take a long time (usually does). - fissionignition, on 05/04/2009, -1/+2OS X only here, but I've been told Data Recovery II can be quite handy to have: http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
As far as damaged directories, I've had pretty good luck with Disk Warrior: http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html - lennybird, on 05/04/2009, -1/+2I forget how it exactly happened, but my one hard drive basically got quick formatted and I lost my school year log book. I spent two days using every data recovery program I could find. I used all of the ones on the list and the only one that was able to find and recover the file was TestDisk.
- asgardshill, on 05/04/2009, -1/+2Have they got anything to repair Page Load Errors at lifehacker.com?
- TheWeez, on 05/04/2009, -1/+2I've always used FileSalvage by SubRosaSoft.com on my Mac. It's saved my ass a million times. Works great on flash cards too.
- smrekar, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1maybe you don't know much about ZFS's healing abilities.
- LeviTheSmith, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1I have the exact same problem. Turn on the pc one day and my HDD decides to not be 'correctly formatted'. I'll give TestDisk a shot because all my music/bookmarks/videos are on it.
- mabsark, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1Are you really this stupid? You were willing to pay $400 to get back movies and music? Why the ***** didn't you just download them? Some people have more money than sense. I hoped you learned a lesson here.
- SterlingAug, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1You could have tried GetDataBack for free to see if the data was readable before sending the drive in for service.
For $100 or so, you could have bought an external USB drive enclosure and added your own hard drive to use as a full backup solution. - m0rph, on 05/26/2009, -0/+1...except their own catastrophic failure:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/23/online-backup ... - maskedform, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1Recuva doesn't help in any way if you reformatted your hard drive and want to recover the files. I struggled for days to find a free recovery service that does not charge exorbant fees. I actually found one called "TestDisk" and it actually worked. It saved all the music that took years to collect and other valuable data.
Download: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
They also seem to have a photo recovery tool which I have not tested. Best of all, the software are all open source. It's included in live CD's such as GParted and Knoppix.
More information: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Livecd - mabsark, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1It's the only one I've used out of the 5 listed, but there probably isn't much difference between the way they actually work.
- Grinning, on 08/18/2009, -0/+0TestDisk, for linux and windows
- indianweb, on 10/17/2009, -0/+0Do you want to know what fortune 500 companies use to recover data from computer hard drives and to perform data recovery.
You can get the data recovery software collection from http://www.datarecoverysoftware.org/ - GorecOverYears, on 08/16/2009, -0/+0Two backups on two drives work best! And use hard drives from different manufacturers..
I tired several recovery tools, in my cases they performed equally. As long as the file is intact on the disk, it would be restored. If not, the program would restore it but actually you get the file with some rubbish inside. I know folks who deleted files to clear up some space when the disk was full and later tried to recover them (by that time they have copied much other stuff to the disk). No wonder, undelete tools didn’t help. - Novion76, on 05/04/2009, -4/+4TestDisk saved my sorry ass just yesterday when I accidentally deleted the system partition in the Windows XP setup (I was trying to delete a logical partition to free up space and wasn't paying attention). I had just moved some guy's critical data back onto that partition too. Thank god it was there; all the commercial ones want $50+ and you don't even know that they work (their demos arent useful either). Definitely a huge thumbs up to that program - it is now part of my regular toolkit in case I ever do something so stupid again.
Haven't tried the other regular undelete programs yet, but I'll probably end up saving them. Great article. - TheShad0w, on 05/04/2009, -1/+1I just recommend ZFS :P
- raza7370, on 05/04/2009, -1/+1best wark
- jannefoo, on 05/04/2009, -1/+1Bitches don't know about my backups.
- inactive, on 05/05/2009, -1/+1how the ***** is a filesystem, however good, relevant to data recovery. while your at it why not just say
lvm
or any other way of spreading data over multiple drives and keeping snapshots? - teepss, on 05/05/2009, -0/+0I noticed that these tools which you would use to get back missing partitions and boot sectors mostly need to have an OS to run on, usually Windows! So I looked hard and found a free Live CD with tools, including Test Disk. It's Linux, so it 'sees' Windows partitions/files as well as others. Free and has additional tools not mentioned here, looks like it could be a real life saver:
http://partedmagic.com/ - mvidata, on 06/18/2009, -0/+0RAID 0, 1, 5 Data Recovery MVI RAID Data Recovery engineers specialise and have experience in recovering data from complicated RAID arrays, RAID 5, RAID 1 and RAID 0. If your company or home business has been affected by RAID corruption or hardware failure, please call our emergency RAID data recovery department on 0800 050 1128.
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