Hard drive recovery software?

Recuva and Testdisk are my first ports of call. You didn't say what happened that you need to recover data, that bit is important! Also remember that you need enough space on another drive to perform any recovery
 
Vampyre said:
I've had good results with Recuva
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i'l give that a go thanks

d_brennen said:
Recuva and Testdisk are my first ports of call. You didn't say what happened that you need to recover data, that bit is important! Also remember that you need enough space on another drive to perform any recovery
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i think i accidently deleted the partition of the hdd when i was trying to install win 8 and looks like i may have selected the wrong drive(although i cant remember doing so).

fingers cross i can recover data from there
 
Hi. i tried getdataback andit doesnts eem to scan r do anything?

i chose teh default settings from the first screen and then on step 1 i chose my hdd thats damaged.

in step 2 nothing happens. it doesnt scan or do anything and on step 3 it doesnt display any of my files.

see screenshots below:

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I have also tried TestDisk and what happens in TestDisk is that when itry to fix and rebuild the mft, it says this:

MFT and MFT mirror are bad. Failed to repair them.

Here is the status of that hdd under Testdrive:

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I also tried this app and got no results when i tried to recover the files. i keep getting this error:

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Last but not least, i tried Recuva and that simply sais that that it is unable to read the MFT?

Any suggestions? i have tried various apps already and none of them seem to work
 
Testdisk can give you the option to list and copy files across to another drive. If repair isn't working, try using it to copy files across as this might be your best bet to save important files
 
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