Re: Hard Drive Failure
- From: DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:22 +0100 (CET)
jarrod.walton@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1164827754.833427.218300
@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
I have been working on a PC where the hard drive has failed. I've
already informed the user of the very real possibility that all his
data could be lost, but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the
direction of any tools that I may be able to use to try to pull any
data at all from the disk. It looks to me that the file table has been
blown away, and most of the indexes have been lost. I have tried to
pull data by making the disk a slave and that has been unsuccessful.
So, at this point, I'm open to any suggestions or advice other than it
should've been backed up. :) Thanks in advance.
As Malke said, if it's physically damaged, it's best to not do anything
with it and send it somewhere, if the client wants to pay for it.
If it is not physically damaged, you MAY be able to retreive data. Of
course, running the extended diagnostic utility may damage it more also.
I had good luck with a program called ByteBack. You boot from a floppy to
DOS, then run ByteBack. It locks the drive first, so nothing can be written
to it. They do have an evaluation version, that doesn't recover, but at
least it will tell you what it thinks it can recover from the drive.
http://toolsthatwork.com/byteback.htm
Looks like it costs around $500 if you wanted to buy it.
.
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