Help getting data back on corrupted NTFS drive

tsinc80697

tsinc80697

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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!
 
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 :/
 
Could try backing-up the 500GB hard disk onto another using Acronis True Image Home. Then simply mount/browse the image made & see if you can recover.

But is this simple hardware failure or could something else be the problem, maybe heat? I mean two (2) hard disks in a year :eek:
 
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 said:
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 :/
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Hi mate.

It seems you have experienced my worse nightmare! I've got raided HDDs for Pics n stuff now so hopefully that doesnt happen.

However, when my hard discs go down, i use a program called:
Active@undelete 5.1 (google for it)

costs $35 and is digital download too

For me its bailed me out of a jam a few times! Never had any problems with corrupted files recovered too.

There is a demo version you can get too, but only lets you recover 64kb, i.e. to proove it works and to try it out.

Just a suggestion any hows.

Deviousdragonuk
 
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
 
tsinc80697 said:
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
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Same Model number and make are fine IMO. beware of slight letter changes and it is the same model number, ie. they both have the same cache etc. its the easiest way to do complete clones of each drive, rather than mess about with a 500GB and a 750GB and try and create a raid on 500GB and a separate partition on 250GB for example.

Good Luck :-)

Deviousdragonuk
 
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