My hard drive with everything on it just bombed out. Stupid me, have no back ups of anything. Just made a new hard drive the master with the crashed one as a slave. I put windows on the new one and was hoping to easily recover the files. Well its pretty fried. Anyone recomend any software to help me? EasyRecovery isn't helping me to much and keeps getting stuck of bad sectors or what not. I'm so screwed. Does anyones compnay specialize in this type of stuff. I'm backing up everything from now on. I swear my house only allows hard drives to be good for 2 years.
It might be worth taking it to a data recovery center such as cherrysystems.com. Those places usually have a good rate of recovery.
I'd really like to have alot of the stuff on there. Though a service like drive savers is way out of my price range for being young.
If you can't afford the help of professionals I would recommend putting the drive in a VERY safe place and do some research. I had a drive that crashed on me and found a couple small programs that worked very well. When I go home I will look them up and let you know. BTW, no matter what you read DO NOT freeze the drive unless it is absolutly the last thing you try. Most say it doesn't work, but those that say it does mention that you have only one chance and then your drive really toast. Not sure who is right since I never tried it, but I figure better safe than sorry if the stuff is really important to you
It might be risky, but I put my fried HD in the freezer for a little and then plugged in back into my system and it worked for awhile, long enough to get some data off of it.
You can certainly chalk it up to "lesson learned". I think we've all been there once before. Sometimes it takes something like this to make us realize that backups are an important part of any computer owner's responsibilty. I don't do mine as often as I should either. But I'll be doing one tonight since you've reminded me how important it is. Good luck recovering your data. I sincerely hope most of it is salvageable.
I would recommend at least calling the professionals and ask them for their advice. Try and squeeze as much info out as you can...because they dont want to tell you. But if your persistent enough, they will give or hire a hitman....depends on what you do
My only advice to you is to go to a professional data recovery service but if it's out of your budget, I really don't have much advice. I just wanted to post because I think everyone should backup their hard drive. Hard drives aren't very expensive these days.
Well, I recovered a drive that I thought was toast. It had 6 years worth of Outlook emails, QuickBooks, etc. They have a free download to see if it will recover your data. It worked for me in a matter of minutes. http://www.runtime.org/ I used GetDataBack for NTFS.
The problem with that solution is that it will only work once I agree 100% and a DVD burner and DVDs are even cheaper I have tried GetDataBack and it worked rather well, actually I only used it to see if my problem was a software or actually hardware crash. if it is a hardware crash you will need some serious help. The program that I used to get my HD working again was testdisk. This article will tell you how to use it http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1139&page=8 and you can get the program information for here http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html I hope that this helps, let us know how it works out for you
So have you used any of the things that I recommended? If not please do before wasting people's time. Like I said before if it is a Hareware problem then NO software out there will fix it and you will defintely have to bite the bullet and pay a GOOD professional to get it back, if it is possible. A hardware issue would be it not spinning up, no computer seeing it, it smells like smoke, etc.... So please try something before posting again, there are probly people here other than me that can help you if they know the problem and what you have tried
I tried like 6 different programs. It must be hardware. Alot of time it would find messed up partions etc... and then after an hour of windows running it can't find the drive any more until I restart.
This is what I have been looking for! Had a archive drive fail 2 weeks after installing. Didn't have time to back that up.
Gees got a bad rep for this thread. Anyway GetbackData FinalData Recover My Files Norton Series of stuff (Disk Doctor, Ghost etc..) Easy Recovery 6 Testdisk O&O DiskRecovery 7 sorry.
did you get back all your stuff? I have alot of experience with doing data recovery and forensics with linux utilities... is the drive ntfs?