Hard Drive recovery - software solution?

[rivethead]

Cleaning out the garage this summer I stubled across a 10GB hard drive from my old Gateway computer. It's a WD. It's FAT32 and that computer ran Windows 98 OS.

I put it in my current system (Windows XP home, NTFS 120 GB seagate) and tried to access the data with no luck. Drive manager would see it, but would not let me access the data, only thing I could do was a reformat (which i didn't want to do).

Is there a software solution that would allow me to recover so data from this drive?

Preferably free or low-cost. The only thing this old HD contains that is very valuable to me is an old song I recorded using ProTools. Maybe some pictures too. But I'd love to get that old song back.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can offer!

 

[MustISO]

GetDataBack or SpinRite should work just fine.

 

[mpilchfamily]

This kind of questions seams to come up at leaste twice a week.

 

[rivethead]

Originally posted by: mpilchfamily
This kind of questions seams to come up at leaste twice a week.

And probably always from noobs like me. Sorry.

 

[Laputa]

You will need GetDataBack for FAT. The demo version you can download and see what you can get first.

 

[rivethead]

GetBackData worked great! Thanks for the suggestion.

Odd thing is.....GetBackData will find all the files and allow me to open them. I was most concerned with getting my old song back. I found the .wav file and played it in WMP. I then saved it from WMP to my current drive with no problem. So I didn't even need to pay the $$ for a full version of GetBackData......it let me play the file and save a copy.

 

[Intexity]

Maybe GetDataBack for NTFS and FAT should be a sticky. Seems to be solving alot of peoples issues....