Data Recovery help

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Hi guys,

A customer of mine has given me her son's laptop which won't boot into Windows, nor go through the motions of start up repair / safe mode or anything else.

I suspect the drive is pretty much fubar'd. I've plugged it into another machine as a slave and the drive shows up, although when I go to click on it it says "F:/ has not been formatted bladeblah"...

Fearing the worst I then booted up a program I've got called "GetDataBackNTFS" to see if I can retrieve any files off it.

The good news is is that it looks like my customer's data is retrievable although the processing of the drive (getting it ready in order to take the files off it) looks to be set to take days upon days, and then there's the possibility that it may throw up some I/O read errors or something before it's done.

My question is - is there an alternative way to getting his data off. It's Uni work so he does need it.

Is there another program I could use which is better and faster or just another way I haven't been able to think of ?

Thanks.
 
Handy Recovery: But you have to buy it.

Linux Mint: Free, but i use it for data recovery all the time and it recovers files windows won't.

He should have all his stuff backed up if its that important to him.

A 32GB pen drive is not expensive, then he would not have this problem.
 
jamesfreddie said:
Handy Recovery: But you have to buy it.

Linux Mint: Free, but i use it for data recovery all the time and it recovers files windows won't.

He should have all his stuff backed up if its that important to him.

A 32GB pen drive is not expensive, then he would not have this problem.
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Yes and that's what I will be telling his Mother, but it's not quite the time for hindsight just yet! Thanks for your help I'll check Linux Mint out - assuming it works in Windows?
 
An alternative is Knoppix which is a Linux boot disk. Burn the ISO to DVD, set DVD-ROM as first boot option in BIOS and off you go.
 
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