HELP: Need a File recovery utility for XP

[LarryJoe]

Somehow the "My Documents" folder became corrupt and XP is telling me the folder is inaccesable. I have all my music, picutes and data in there and no recent babkup. Over 2500 mp3's! The properties of the folder reads as 0 file and 0 folders. However, I believe the data is on the drive because the size still reads as 20GB used.

Is there a utility or a suggestion out there? I am desperate.

Thanks.

 

[340mopar]

Here
A demo will at least let ya see the files if there still there.
Purchase the key and then ya can copy and or move them elsewhere.
I've used it and saved 20Gb mp3 myself. (Linux mess up)
Install on another machine, then connect your corrupted drive to view.
It's not cheap, but once in a while ya have to pay for software
and this one is worth it. (Might be a cheaper alt. in XP, I dont know.)
Geo

 

[LarryJoe]

I can't thank you enough here. I downloaded the demo this morning and ran the scan and it created a restore folder in the view that contained all my data. Now I just need to pay the $129 to unlock the ntfs version and it appears I can just copy from the program to another loacation. I have 3 hard drives in the system, so I plan on copying out of this drive to another. I don't think I will need to move the drive to another machine as reccommended in the instructions.

$129 is a little steep, but recovering 2500 mp3's, 100's of digital pictures, and 100's of home video captures is worth the price. The first thing I am going to do is grab a spindle of CD's and start burning some backup's.

Thanks again,

LJ

 

[LarryJoe]

Just an update here and thanks again - I used a program called R-Studio (the NTFS version) and it worked like a charm. I immediately backed up everything once it recovered the files from the corrupt directory.

 

[340mopar]

Good find, R-Studio would have saved me $20.00 (fat32), but I'm not complaining. Much better ntfs pricing.



<< recovering 2500 mp3's, 100's of digital pictures, and 100's of home video captures is worth the price. The first thing I am going to do is grab a spindle of CD's and start burning some backup's. >>


Been there, done......still doing that!
Geo.
btw, I have been suffering here in forums for 2 weeks, just learned of this subscibe thing, duh....much better

 

[kursplat]

man thats why i copy all that stuff to my wifes comp and another one . windows gets hammered and i can wipe and restore in a couple hours.

 

[LarryJoe]

<<
btw, I have been suffering here in forums for 2 weeks, just learned of this subscibe thing, duh....much better >>



I bit the bullet and it is a much better experience. Well worth the money and the lack of ads is great.