drive recovery

dantheman61 · Nov 4, 2007, 03:22 PM

i am looking for a FREE drive recovery software open source would be good thanx

Dyre Straits · Nov 5, 2007, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by dantheman61

i am looking for a FREE drive recovery software open source would be good thanx

Do you mind sharing what it is that's wrong with the drive you need recovered? Is it a boot drive that won't boot anymore? Did it start giving off a lot of noise and clatter? Or what?

In many cases where a drive has gotten corrupted, I've had excellent success just connecting it to a working system as an additional drive and then running the full Disk Check program from Windows. If it's formatted to NTFS, you've got a good to excellent chance of restoring the drive. But, keep in mind, it can take literally HOURS to get things back to normal.

I've done this with a few boot drives and the people were able to get back into Windows again afterwards with no problem.

So...exactly what's the issue with this one?

dantheman61 · Nov 5, 2007, 03:15 PM

the drive is fine it got formated with a quick format thanks

Dyre Straits · Nov 5, 2007, 10:24 PM

So, whatever is on there isn't priceless enough to put out some money to get it back, right?

Here's a Demo Version but I haven't tried it myself. (I don't normally format HDDs by mistake.

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Here's another one that's trialware. If it works, you can opt to purchase it.

Accidental format recovery

H3X4D3C1M4L · Nov 20, 2007, 10:43 PM

Partition Magic has a partition undelete tool that might work for this purpose. Not sure if it only works if you've deleted the partition accidentally or quick formatted it but worth a try