Help getting data back on corrupted NTFS drive

[tsinc80697]

Western Digital 500GB drive went funny the other night so i've been getting all ym data back from it.

Managed to get most things i wanted, well nearly everything, including all of my photographs of the past 2-3years.

At the moment i cant test the films/mp3s due to the pc having no decent media player with codecs. So i am assuming they will work as their dimensions and duration appear which is always a good sign.

However some of my photos dont open, well around 2/3 of them which is really annoying as they include holiday snaps and birthday pictures.

I tried getdataback for NTFS and this is what got alof of the data back, I used the same program last year when it happend on my old 250GB drive.

Does anyone know of any other good programs i could try to get the photos back with or will they be corrupt if getdataback can't get them to work?

Any help much apprecaited as its really annoying losing a lot of photos!

 

[tsinc80697]

well after having some time to look through things its worse

Films and MP3s so far are ok, but all my RAR files aswell as most of my photo's wont open :/

 

[tsinc80697]

lol you think 2 hard disks in a year is bad?

lets see whats gone wrong that i can remember since starting uni about 16months ago.

250GB died, 500GB died, 500GB corrupted, motherboard melted, 2 CPUs dont work, RAM and motherboard taken out by PSU. Another few hard drives died, all maxtor around 80GB, and prob few more things!

One of the reasons i got a macbook pro, i swear bill gates has it in for me, taken me over 2 weeks jsut to get a socket A system that works, gone through 3 motherboards, 3 CPUs and 2 sets of ram :/

I tried a rar recover program but it didnt do anything, jsut said it cudnt get stuff back, most of the folders within the RAR are pictures so I thought it might :/
Might go through getdataback again and see what happens

 

[tsinc80697]

thanks a lot ill look into that now

If i wanted to RAID the 500GB do i have to get the exact same drive with similar S/N on it, or can i jsut buy another WD 500GB same model number?

Thanks