data recovery software

Nefarious · 25 Jul 2006 at 13:50

Can anyone recommend a piece of software that's good for extracting data from damaged disks that have lost their FAT? Cheap would be good, free would better FAQ

Thanks

$c8t@ · 25 Jul 2006 at 14:06

Spinright 6.0
R Studio

JayMax · 25 Jul 2006 at 14:07

file scavenger 3.0. Once I tried that I haven't used anything else.
Though I must say I've never dealt with a hdd with no fat, only bad sectors.

JonnyT · 25 Jul 2006 at 14:37

TestDisk has saved my bacon on several occaisions

Dutch Guy · 25 Jul 2006 at 15:16

GetDataBack worked wonders for a friend when he formatted his drive as he got all his data back, it isn't free though

NuTz · 27 Jul 2006 at 20:38

sorry to hijack the thread

I had to recover some data from a drive that went 'offline' at the weekend but when i open pics there is nothing to display? guessing that not normal - can anyone help or is it lost?

bledd · 27 Jul 2006 at 20:52

file scavenger 3 is awesome, works on broken raids even

not free tho

testdisk is cool for recovering lost partitions, basically any lost partition can be rewritten using this, and its freeware

Colossus · 30 Jul 2006 at 19:48

What program would you recomend to recover files after 'simply' hitting shift+delete on the wrong thing?

Thanks

P_A_N_I_C · 30 Jul 2006 at 23:32

legend 1:

JayMax said:
file scavenger 3.0. Once I tried that I haven't used anything else.
Though I must say I've never dealt with a hdd with no fat, only bad sectors.

legend 2:

bledd. said:
file scavenger 3 is awesome, works on broken raids even

spent many hours trying to ressurect, fix and recover data from my friend's HDD, which failed in a really big way, spinright was finding thousands of errors and spent around 40 or so hours trying to repair it with no success.

after installing this proggy about an hour ago and attaching the damaged hdd via external usb, i can see the entire hdd contents in tree view, and am transfrerring the data to my PC as i type. :cool:

other apps ive tried so far for fixing / recovery:

spinright
easy recovery pro
Directory Snoop
nortons disk doctor
avast scandisk
win scandisk
o&o unerase
r-studio
cia unerase
get databack (almost worked, just could not finish scanning the whole disk)
and 1/2 a dozen others i cant be bothered mentioning

the main problem for the apps is that the ntfs file structure was corrupt, so they didnt know what filesystem the hdd had, windows was extremely unhappy with the hdd attached to.

ah i have a new fav app now anyway

P_A_N_I_C · 31 Jul 2006 at 19:33

it aint half slow though :*(
maybe this hdd is just breathing its last breath