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Cosmo |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 23:30 |
Have used GetDataBack myself a few times and always managed to get what Ive wanted. Saying that there werent on drives that had a possible mechanical fault. | |
Dom |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 23:27 |
quote: Can be :look: | |
Deadude |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 23:22 |
quote: /fixed | |
Tim |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 21:50 |
Used R-Studio a while back to recover a drive (bloody IBM DeskStar clunking -- took it awhile but it didn't give up). Since then I've always been ultra-paranoid and run RAID on everything :) | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 16:15 |
is that free? | |
Dom |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 16:12 |
Use something like GetBackData (there are two versions - NTFS and FAT), it has an image tool where it'll create an image (non-compressed) of the whole drive and then it'll try and recover the data from the image rather than the drive. | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 15:54 |
well doesnt bother me as i'm booting off a live linux cd in the first place so not booting off the hard drive. | |
Daniel_Corsa |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 15:46 |
:lol: | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 14:33 |
well i borrowed my mates one last week but it blew up :| so I've had to order his replacement. | |
Daniel_Corsa |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 14:05 |
quote: Saved my arse a few times! | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 13:55 |
got one of them coming in the post actually dan :lol: | |
Daniel_Corsa |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 13:22 |
Spinrite does work a treat like John said! | |
John |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 12:06 |
I doubt it'll work if its physically failing but GRC's Spinrite is an amazing program, can recover data long after other programs have given up. | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:45 |
ARGH :lol: | |
Whittie |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:43 |
Just got a reply :lol: | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:35 |
i wish. | |
Whittie |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:33 |
Eeeeek, ok. | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:30 |
its in a laptop so more then likely its taken a hit and the headers/arm thing is hitting the platters of the disk. Sounds like its very near to mechanical failure. | |
Whittie |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:29 |
What's actually wrong with the HD if its spinning up? | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:26 |
yeah I keep reading the freezer trick but thats the last effort sort of thing, so far I've been able to rip off only a few meg of data without it throwing up loads of errors (running off a live CD too) | |
Ian W |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:25 |
I had a drive die a few months ago, was completely dead, wouldn't even power up. | |
willay |
posted on 27th Jan 09 at 10:21 |
Hi, |