recovery software

patrickv

patrickv

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hey peeps whats a good recovery software , preferably freeware, i need to recover data, apparently a drive had wat to many bad sectors and when i try opening it i get "drive is not formatted"....
geez, any ideas ?:mad:
 
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ive looked for freeware in the past and found nothing. I would think it exist.
Im using spinrite.
 
Sounds like it's Recuva time again for someone. http://www.recuva.com/ That's a freeware while something like Active Undelete is a retail software. And before all the lame remarks start pouring in I'll show you an alternative method for seeing files copied from drive to drive without Windows even running.



A live for cd distro can get around bad sectors and MS errors at times like ubuntu 7.10 seen there.
 
PC eye said:
Sounds like it's Recuva time again for someone. http://www.recuva.com/ That's a freeware while something like Active Undelete is a retail software. And before all the lame remarks start pouring in I'll show you an alternative method for seeing files copied from drive to drive without Windows even running.



A live for cd distro can get around bad sectors and MS errors at times like ubuntu 7.10 seen there.
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hopefully that will help

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
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deleted ?
from my first post am gonna format, but i will try this instead.
Yesterday i backed up the userdata and put it on that hard drive, now this one turns out "drive not formatted ".. am really pissed at this.
i spent a whole night recovery yesterday with Ontrack but ontrack is crap, recovers very little data
 
haha Pc_eye, that recuva thing is pure crap, i also tried booting off my ubuntu cd but i got a sh*tload of errors at startup.
I will try using hirens utility and see if that helps, right now in my country its 12.10am, geez guess am gonna be working through the night again
 
The advantage of a live distro is that you can get past obstacles at times since Linux uses a different way to access partitions whether they are MS, VFat, or another type without any particular OS being loaded except for the live session which is a self contained OS on a cd-r and not running off of any hard drive.

One old article explains how to use the Debian Distro Knoppix for the same type of recovery when a drive or partition can't be accessed normally unless the drive is more then seeing bad sectors but the heads are going on you. http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

When booting with a live distro simply press the enter key to see the defaults loaded unless you are a more advanced user.
 
PC eye said:
The advantage of a live distro is that you can get past obstacles at times since Linux uses a different way to access partitions whether they are MS, VFat, or another type without any particular OS being loaded except for the live session which is a self contained OS on a cd-r and not running off of any hard drive.

One old article explains how to use the Debian Distro Knoppix for the same type of recovery when a drive or partition can't be accessed normally unless the drive is more then seeing bad sectors but the heads are going on you. http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

When booting with a live distro simply press the enter key to see the defaults loaded unless you are a more advanced user.
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im on knoppix now,i will update info later
edit : Could not mount device
The reported error was
mount : i could not determine the filesystem type,and none was specified

error i got while accessing the drive, i dont think live distros will help here, i need a windows program for this
 
If you are seeing that type of error with a live distro where it can't even view the drive it's likely that the drive is toast and the only thing you would be able to do is send it to a professional data recovery service. If the hardware portion of the drive is working the way it should you would have seen the drive as a desktop icon like seen in the screen shot taken while booting up with ubuntu live here.
 
PC eye said:
If you are seeing that type of error with a live distro where it can't even view the drive it's likely that the drive is toast and the only thing you would be able to do is send it to a professional data recovery service. If the hardware portion of the drive is working the way it should you would have seen the drive as a desktop icon like seen in the screen shot taken while booting up with ubuntu live here.
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drive is not toast yet Pc_Eye, its still good, and no i cant afford to send it to professional recovery service

vk3fcll said:
Here you go
Recover my files application no need for installation
Here is the link to download it from - Download File Here

:cool::D
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well right now i was about to Install Recover my files, ive been reading on google that its ok, though not free :D, i will see to that, thanks anyways
 
Well everyone wants recover software and this application i got a IT friend and everyone wants freeware for this and all it is an application.
 
patrickv said:
drive is not toast yet Pc_Eye, its still good, and no i cant afford to send it to professional recovery service
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When did you last use the Linux disks? If you are now using a different optical drive then the one the disks were burned that will often account for disks not being read or to load up properly. I've tossed a few frisbies here recently when old backups on cd-rs could no longer be read.
 
PC eye said:
When did you last use the Linux disks? If you are now using a different optical drive then the one the disks were burned that will often account for disks not being read or to load up properly. I've tossed a few frisbies here recently when old backups on cd-rs could no longer be read.
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been a while now since i used my knoppix cd, a recent version. the drive is the same am using it in my philips writer.
today i started a Full recovery on a 10GB, after that i will run a full on a 40GB..this will take way too much of my time though :(
 
I copied the entire primary off of more then one drive to recover files using the free Linux drive tool. Two of them lately were 120gb and the 250gb ide model recently removed from the case here. It's a slow process but everything was copied over.

I have Mepis, Gentoo, Knoppix, and two release of Mandriva(2006-2008 beta) where those were burned on an older build. Both releases of Mandriva would see it's own universal boot loader go on but fail to run seeing the request for a system disk.

The others wouldn't load at all on the newer dvd burner bought for the present case when built. Mandriva 2006 was running here on the last build when I had that installed on the first partition of the second ide model out of 4 HDs then.

With all that I still seem to find that the good old copy + paste method seems to go along faster then with any 3rd party softwares. I moved large video files and other things in complete folders in quite a bit less time then it took to copy entire partition off of a smaller drive. The copy + paste was about 420gb of files.
 
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