recovery program for partitions and files

benw1981 · Apr 15, 2006, 06:32 AM

please help as i have just lost 120gb of info!!!!!
the hard drive was unstable but i was trying to fix it.
i used abexo defragmenter lite which was a scandisk and defragmenter and after it finished
theres nothing on the hard drive and when i try to access it it comes up saying this hard drive is not formatted do u want to format now?
i need some of that info is there a good full version program that will hopefully bring it all back for me?

PangingJr · Apr 15, 2006, 07:15 AM

you should "not" allow the defrag tool to run the chkdsk you should have paused at the point where you think the hard drive was unstable.

if there is no evidence that the drive is dying, a all sectors 1:1 image should have been made of the drive and then something like Easy Recovery Pro should have been used on the drive. then if that didn't get back all of what was missing, the sector image could have been restored and other recovery software tried on the drive.

if the drive is dying, a forensic clone should have been done on the drive while it isnt dead and recovery attempted on the clone.

now, i think it's a bit to late you will have to find a good recovery program that can scan the drive looking for files, and you will probably get only the files that are not fragmented at all.

try GetDataBack Data Recovery Software - http://www.runtime.org/

i've never actually used this software myself. good luck.

benw1981 · Apr 15, 2006, 07:30 AM

thankx for that i have found another program called recover my files 3.94 which at the moment has been 20 mins and 1665 files have been found if they havent all been found ill try the one u sugessted aswell.
god im in a big mess!!! i dont want to lose all my music!! music is my life!! but hopefully if i can get it all back ill b backing it up everyweek and im going out to get prob a 300g sata which will b for backup purposes only.

Al_Vampyre · Apr 15, 2006, 08:25 AM

GetDataBack is one of the best in my opinion, saved my mp3 collection once when a 120Gb drive died when I swapped my graphics card (no I don't understand it either!!!)

PangingJr · Apr 15, 2006, 09:07 AM

how's it going?

benw1981 · Apr 15, 2006, 09:11 AM

yeah ok still going with it just gone 2 hours and up to 21680 files recovered but still its on 950000 and it has to reach 390716802 so to more digits to put on so ill c how i go its 12:10am here in australia dont no if i wanna goto sleep yet prob just surf da net n watch some movies.
ill keep ya posted

benw1981 · Apr 15, 2006, 09:17 PM

hey there im back now and well its still going not even half way yet!
hey Al_Vampyre does getdataback get the files faster than the program im using coz its just gone 14 hours and its just hit 50 000 000 and its still gotta get to 390 000 000 it has found just under 140 000
recovered files so wot u do think? should i keep goin or use getdata back?

PangingJr · Apr 15, 2006, 11:53 PM

i really don't know if the file scan operation will pick up where it left off or it'll have to start over again,
but if you stop running this program and start over with another program i'm sure it'll take a long time to finish also.

only thing i can suggest which is not much will be: to keep on using the same program for now and look around on the internet to see if you can find more info about these file recovery programs, each program works differently so maybe you can find some info that tells you the name of a program that can get your files faster than the others. the most important now is make sure you protect the subject drive, don't use it until you get your files back.

read this completely...
File Scavenger® Installation and Recovery Procedures
http://www.quetek.com/maximize_disk_...ry.htm#protect

benw1981 · Apr 16, 2006, 05:50 AM

still goin 210000 files found and its up to 69 770 380 still gotta get to 390 000 000
22 hours 41 mins wish it had an approx finishing time. looks like its gonna be poss another 2 days or so!!

PangingJr · Apr 16, 2006, 06:36 AM

How do I recover hard disks involving Scandisk and Chkdsk?
http://www.ptdd.com/datarecovery/rec...hkdsk-disk.htm

15-day trial of Data Security Wizard ( http://www.easeus.com/download.htm )

"You would require the full version of Data Recovery Wizard to recover the data from inaccessible drive. The demo version gives you a much fairer idea about chances of data recovery from your hard disk before deciding upon the purchase."

i wish it's a full functional trial version, but it isn't.

this one gets many good reviews... but (same as above) the demo versions won't allow you to recover the data from inaccessible drive.

Stellar Phoenix NTFS - Data Recovery Software
http://www.stellarinfo.com/recover-windows-nt.htm

merry · Apr 17, 2006, 05:16 AM

Is your HDD 120GB (as you posted) or 160GB? Because 390,000,000x4k=160GB, I don't see how you can have 3k sectors.

Al_Vampyre · Apr 17, 2006, 06:44 AM

Its either really fragged, or the prgram is slow, I don't remember GetDataBack taking that long with mine...

benw1981 · Apr 18, 2006, 04:37 AM

na well the hard drive thats stuffed is a 200gb but still has space free.
i stopped the other program coz after 55 hours it was about 5/8 of the ways through!!!
and i just did getdata back and well its doing it under an hour.
when it finishes does the recovered files have different names or r they back to normal like i dont have to go through my mp3s and play them all to figure out wot they r?

benw1981 · Apr 18, 2006, 04:40 AM

also can i please have some help with this.....
when im on the net and i click on a thumbnail or link which opens a new window and its only half open and i click on that page a was just on the new window goes to the back behind the max open page.
now it just stays there while im trying to look at the main page theres the new window open just staying there until i click minimize. how can i get this to just go behind the main page if i still wanna look at it?

PangingJr · Apr 18, 2006, 05:16 AM

seems they uses a script to open sub pages in its own window, use all avaiable screen space and also an always on top script.

try using "open in new tab" of one of web browser that have a tab-style interface.

also, about the getdataback you might also want to use an instant messaging with Al_Vampyre since he knows about this program,
you and him might be on this site in different time frames, and an instant messaging should help. check with him to see if hes okay?