Data recovery

[zest]

What is the best data recovery software?



Thanx in advance..

 

[Canai]

Here in the lab I work in, we use PC Inspector File Recovery to get stuff off of corrupted floppies / scratched discs. It works about half the time.

 

[zest]

Sorry should have been clearer.

Need to recover as much as poss from a 250gb drive.

 

[elcamino74ss]

does the drive power up and is it detected by the bios/os?

 

[RebateMonger]

As noted above, the "best" data recovery software depends on what's wrong with the drive. A hard mechanical failure often can't be fixed by ANY software by itself. Modest mechanical damage (such as bad sectors) can be worked around with suitable low- or mid-range software designed for this purpose. Logical errors on the drive are best repaired with software optimised for that kind of error.

 

[zetsway]

My recommendation:

http://snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Easy Recovery Pro
GetDATABack NTFS

Those are the ones I use. If drive doesn't work. Post back and I can put up another software link that's free that may get the data back.