Hard Drive Recovery - Please Help!

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Can U believe it - it was a seagate!:eek:

Ok, so I lost 320 Gigs of my life this weekend. I need some help to maybe restore some of it...:o

Ok, so this is what happend:

- Pc Froze
- Restarted, and Windows wanted to check HDD for "Inconsistencies"
- Now, i'm not sure what happend cause I left, but Ive seen how all these "Fixing" of Sectors, etc actually causes more Damage.
-Now when WinXP Boots up, Blue Screen.
-I will be installing WinXP tonite on another drive, and need some Advice on Software (That I can download today at work) that can maybe recover some of it.

Thanks guys.
 
SpinRite comes highly recommended, although it's not a free product.

If I recall correctly a program called GetDataBack (or similar) was also recommended a while ago.
 
gdiza said:
Oh boy!
You have no idea how I know EXACTLY how you feeling! :(
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seems this weekend was bad luck as i to lost 80gigs of info...lucky i wrote a new mbr and i got to transfer all my info to my vista pc:D..with the help of a very fast format and tuneuputlities2008:cool:
 
When that happened to me Easy Recovery Pro recovered most of my data, also not a free product.
 
mercurial said:
Spinrite or Hiren's Bootdisk.
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Yes, Hiren's BootDisk has a copy of GetDataBack for NTFS.

If the drive still powers up, take it out and put it in a USB enclosure.

then run the windows version of that program on the drive... it will build a Virtual image of the entire drive and you can then save whatever files you are able. It takes about two to three hours to build the virtual image. Good Luck.

If you need, we have the number of some professionals who can recover for you... but you are looking at R3000 to R8000 for a drive recovery.
 
Another vote for Spinrite - its not free but then again you get what you pay for.
 
So my Choices are:

-SpinRite (Not Free)
-GetDataBack
-Easy Recovery Pro

SpinRite isn't free - So does it function as a demo before you pay? I only need to restore once..LOL
 
GetDataBack worked for me in a similar situation. Got all files back except 1 file. Comes in NTFS and FAT flavours.

Needs a serial key if you want to do more than individual files.

Expect it to take 2 days+ to recover 320gb.
 
Keeper said:
SpinRite isn't free - So does it function as a demo before you pay? I only need to restore once..LOL
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No demo but worth the money if your data has any value to you.
 
GetDataBack (off Hiren's BootCD ... google ... version 9.5 latest) will help. It has recovered data 98% of the time for me.

Easy Recovery Pro (not free ... but there are options online for "free" versions *cough*)
Restorer2000 (not free ... but the license isn't expensive)
Power Data Recovery (not free ... ^^ like above)

If the disk is physically damaged then the only option is a data recovery service. They strip and rebuild the hard drive (taking the internals [platters] and rebuilding a new hard drive) before running top-end data recovery programs (usually in a Linux environment).

Give us feedback!

Good luck
 
gdiza said:
Is it me or is there alot of problems with Seagates 320GB HDD's?
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Well I have also had a seagate 500 Gb die on me... and a Hitachi 160 Gb so far this year. Neither of them were recoverable.
 
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