Data recovery Software?

Sandmaster500 · 1 Feb 2006 at 10:22

Hi, got a Maxtor which windows has "deleted" all the files off as they were corrupted (i think) which i guess means is like a quick format (ie beggining and end saying data between these points is deleted?)
Was wondering if there is any free software to un-delete the data?

Don't know if that makes total sense...

What can i do?

Thanks

Sandmaster500 · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:33

Please could someone give me some starting point?

Going to have to format and test this thing before i RMA it but would like to get some of the data off it if i can.

skankmaster · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:51

Try R-Studio

It can recover files off formatted drives.
You can dl the evaluation of it which allows small file recovery. If you see big files you want to recover, you just buy a licence. No doubt there are other good pieces of sw out there doing similar things, but this one works fine.

Sandmaster500 · 2 Feb 2006 at 20:57

Thanks, thats exactly the kind of thing i was looking for. Going to try the demo and may buy it if it is able to find the data

What other things similar are there?

Torch [P4] · 2 Feb 2006 at 22:55

R Studio managed to recover 85% of my fubarred raid 0 set, well worth the £20 purchase imho !!!!

Cyber-Mav · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:07

Final Data v2.0

worked for me.

Mason64 · 3 Feb 2006 at 23:12

get data back is good also

forgot the url but google it.

TriedandTested · 4 Feb 2006 at 10:42

http://www.runtime.org/

Sandmaster500 · 4 Feb 2006 at 21:57

Thanks very much

Going to give them both a go on the drive and hoefully will be able to see if i can get something off, then i'll decide if its worth me getting one of them.

thanks very much for the help, will let you know how i get on.

kchakkar · 4 Feb 2006 at 23:17

Active@Undelete version 5.1 is great. Just recovered files from my hard drive which windows converted to a dynamic disk. If was a foreign disk under disk management and I could not read the files on it. I had to convert it to a basic disk thus losing my data. I then formated it and now recovered my data.