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#1 Mr.Janson   User is offline

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Posted 17 November 2009 - 02:29 PM

Does any one know of a good software recovery? one of my users hard drives crashed i took out her hard drive and hooked it to my computer but it tells me to format it. I need to restores her files to put on her other computer.
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Posted 17 November 2009 - 02:54 PM

You could use SpinRite. I have heard that this works wonders. http://www.grc.com/default.htm go here for a link to it. Not free I know, but as I hear it well worth the money.
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Re: software recovery

Posted 17 November 2009 - 06:40 PM

chkdsk will rewrite the file allocation table....
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#4 Mr.Janson   User is offline

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Re: software recovery

Posted 18 November 2009 - 05:31 AM

Thanks for the info Did try chkdsk already and it didnt work. Ill just have to buy the recovery software. But the good thing is that my work has to pay for it not me lol!
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Re: software recovery

Posted 18 November 2009 - 06:53 AM

And if you're looking for a free software. Go for Recuva.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva
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Re: software recovery

Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:04 AM

I have used many different recovery programs...Advanced File Recovery is on the top of my list.
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Re: software recovery

Posted 07 December 2009 - 08:46 AM

I use dd to get a binary dump of the drive. Screw partition tables, that can be setup later :)

DD & ISO references!
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