Was given an old HD to try to recover the pictures from but but I dont have any recovery software. Any good ones that are free?
Was given an old HD to try to recover the pictures from but but I dont have any recovery software. Any good ones that are free?
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Try Recuva.
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Recuva is pretty good. Personally I had more successes with TestDisk. This program goes pretty deep and can even rebuild your boot sector. UndeletePlus also comes to mind, its similar to Recuva. Let me know how your recovery goes!
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word. testdesk/photorec is extremely powerful and probably the best ive used. not the easiest to use/understand, but their wiki explains the steps and functions thoroughly.
i would first recommend making an image of the drive and using the image to try and recover data because the drive can suddenly become unbootable or missing up the data even more and making it harder to recover.
Alternatively, you can try the very simple but effective method of connecting the HDD as a slave drive then just browsing the disk in Windows and pulling off what you need
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I'll second TestDisk. I've had good luck with it.
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It's not free. And I also recommend TestDisk, it saved me from trouble more times than I'd like to admit.
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imo Rstudio is the best, there's another program also which detects the sectors and which raid you had if u did have a raid for example, cant rememebr the damn name.. ill pm you it..
Another thing I find funny is AMD/Intel would snipe any of our Moms on a grocery run if it meant good quarterly results, and you are forever whining about what feser did?
I have a partially rebuilt RAID1 setup which annoyingly started overwriting my master disk instead of my slave. Hopefully I stopped it in time and it hasn't overwritten the one file I was working on. I am currently running recuva to see what it finds. If that fails, I'll use testdisk. I'm hoping as the MFT was probably overwritten first the file may not be affected, it's a big hope.
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Give raid reconstructor a go also, it detects the hdd's u used and which raid was used along with which stripe size etc, Good program to use before u set up your raid & before u start data recovery
Another thing I find funny is AMD/Intel would snipe any of our Moms on a grocery run if it meant good quarterly results, and you are forever whining about what feser did?
Testdisk.
Winhex forensic liceanse ver, for when you wanna manually recover files one by one... (expensive)
Winhex doesn't work well at all on fat64/exfat partitions yet, it crashes...
As for spinrite, that program is a complete joke.
I've tried it in the past a few times, takes over a day to run on a 1gig drive and achieves absolutely nothing.
I don't mean to sound rude about it, but it's true, that program is just not worth messing with even if it was free.
winhex is kinda hard to use but works great, if u know how to re arrange and check out where the sectors belong then yes winhex is the right program for you
Another thing I find funny is AMD/Intel would snipe any of our Moms on a grocery run if it meant good quarterly results, and you are forever whining about what feser did?
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I like the file browser in winhex.
If the drive hasn't crashed and the partition is still in one piece, it's very easy to pick what files you want to recover and such with it.
That's the part that doesn't work on fat64/exfat though.
I'm thinking of sending them a bug report about that one.
There's also a built in scanning function to find certain types of files.
And the drive content reports can be very handy, they show you were every files is located by sector offset.
Even if the partition is trashed.
Way back in the day, I bought my 1st western digital black, a 120gig.
About 60-80 gigs into the drive it was dead, one of the platters was toast, doa.
This is before I knew how to test drives by hand.
All the drive util's would say my drive was good, ibm's, western digital, etc.
But once I copied a file onto that bad platter, the whole drive would go wack.
I was in a bad spot.
My previous drive was a deathstar.
Which I had barely managed to hang on to my data, constantly recovering it (flipping it upside down, putting it on it's side, blipping it with my fingers, etc).
I had to leave all my data on a buddies drive until I got a new one.
Got the wd black, copied my files over and thought all was good.
The next night I found out the hard way the drive was a bad one.
Lost all of my data.
So I called up my buddy, asked him if he still had my data, nope, crap...
That's when I learned how to scan for headers and footers of certain file types.
And for those files types that didn't have a footer, I just told it to dump 1 gig from each header it found.
It took a while but I managed to recover almost everything that was important to me.
It was a very time consuming process, I had to image the drive into a binary file at the end of the drive, past the bad platter.
And then I would take that binary and scan it, copying what it found into a new partition that took up all the space before the bad spot.
I had to plan it, and execute it correctly otherwise everything would be lost.
After it was all said and done I took a good look at the drive report I made with winhex, and realized it showed me where all my files were lol.
It was to late though, it didn't matter anymore.
But I was able to use it to figure out the file sizes of my Inuyasha collection.
And then by collecting all the file names and hashes of them from online, I was able to rename them back to the original names and verify which ones were still good.
I only ended up screwing up 2-3 of them, which had been fragmented so the crc32 didn't match up and there would be a glitch or 2 in each of those bad ones.
I was on dialup so I could not afford to lose my whole set, plus the a whole bunch of other things like roms and so on...
Winhex's built in file type scanning has improved alot from back then though, though I doubt it's perfect.
If I knew about testdisk back then I probably would of save ALOT of time and hassle.
The 1st time I used testdisk I was in a bad way because I was trying to get a western digital black to work with a seagate on the same ide channel.
Lost one of my western digital's trying that.
Since I was staying the weekend over a buddies house, I didn't want to spend all that time recovering files by hand.
So I asked my buddies that were there, if they had any ideas.
And one had a boot cd with linux and it had a few extra tools on it.
Testdisk was one of those tools.
I ran it, bam, it found my partitions, I'm thinking whoa nice, I hope this works.
I carefully picked my options and was back up in no time
2nd time, I was priming at low temps, my new wd1600jb got to cold and lost it's largest partition.
I let her warm back up to around 20c, and ran testdisk, and sure enough it found it and recovered it np.
The last time I used it was when my ocz psu killed 2 of my drives.
I took 3 hours before my drives broke back in, using a 2nd psu only for those drives.
After that, it was able to find the partitions and recover them.
And since I never ran my drives on the ocz.
A few months later my ocz takes out my nf2 and then the ocz dies completely.
I repaired the nf2.
Before it died the fluctuation was over 1v on all it's rails.
Did that while running superpi, all the sudden it was unstable, I checked my rails and I was like whoa...
Thinking wth ok..., I ran it for a few more mins and the board shut off, would not start, psu still worked.
Repaired the board, psu was still wacked out, I repaired the psu and after a few mins of running better it completely died on me.
That sucked, I was over a buddies that time too.
Afterwards I bought 3 enermax 300w psu's lol, and I still have 2 of those.
And I baught a 350w enermax to replace the original I used to have.
Killed when I left the ground+pwr-on cables with no tape and they touch inside it on it's heatsink, killed it, real shame, I had moded it with new cables and ferrite beads, 0 fluctuation.
That was the psu I had been using for a backup for the ocz.
The new 350w, I used on my dfi 790fx and this current board the asus ch4 formula.
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Anyways
Testdisk is god when it comes to recovering drives.
That program has a special place in my heart I guess you could say.
If for some reason testdisk didn't work, I would fall back to winhex and scan for file headers and such like I did along long time ago.
Though most won't beable to do that, it's an expensive program.
Testdisk is free though.
Last edited by NEOAethyr; 04-24-2011 at 12:28 AM.
as stated above testdisk works a treat
also try diskdigger
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seems that disk digger it is no longer absolutely free
when i first used this software,it was free as beer,now it does data recovery but for saving the recovered data,it ask for purchasing a personal key,but still does recovery ...it is just nagging.but hey you will get your data backIs DiskDigger free?
DiskDigger is free for personal use. However, the program strongly encourages you to purchase a personal license. To use the program for commercial purposes, you must purchase a commercial license.
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