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Anyone know a good Data recovery software?

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SteelGuy

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See the problem Here in technical support.

Anyone know of a good program - or even a company. I'd be willing to pay up to 100...maybe 150 to salvage the data.
 
I and others I heard from have had good experience with GetDataBack-NTFS. It is probably worth the $80 for you. Very good software. I belive they offer a trial version which allows you to see what files it is able to recover, so you can see if it'll do the job before dropping the $80.

It doesn't sound like the drive is dead really. I had a similar problem with a at the time, very new Seagate 250GB. One day in Explorer I click my drive and its says "Not formatted, do you want to?" (it still detected in BIOS and everything, it wasn't clicking and didnt seem to have a mechanical failure). The whole partition and all the data was gone. I thought I was fvcked big time. That was my music collection starting from before Napster! GetDataBack brought back EVERYTHING (well everything that I had room for on another drive, though it could've done everything, plus things I had deleted on purpose months previous!).

So yeah, there's probably a lot of recovery software. GetDataBack is the only one I've used personally and as I said, has received good mention from others. Plus the whole trial thing to see what is recoverable is a good idea by them. I would guess that with proper recovery software you won't have any problems recovering but again just a guess. Providing the drive isn't failing mechanically or whatnot, your data SHOULD be there as long as nothing has been written over it since.
 
Hey-

I tried the software you recommended ( I was demoing a similar one) and both seem to detect the files - although the one you recommended works faster...

So I take it you brought the files back, stored them on a new drive - and formmated the old drive?
What did you do to the old drive...dump it or reformat it?

Did you leave it basic mode or dynamic?

Thanks.
 
Yep. You'll need an additional hard drive plugged in that has room for whatever you need to restore. After confirming I restored everything from the screwed-up drive to a another one, I partitioned and formatted the old one from Disk Management (right-click My Computer, then Manage) and ran a scan disk to fix any errors. It's working fine every since which has been over a year now.

I don't recall dealing with basic mode or dynamic in GetDataBack so I couldn't really tell you the difference. The help file might have an explanation. I generally go with advanced/expert modes if thats what it means when using software just cause I roll hard as fvck like that.
 
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