how do you restore data from a corrupted drive?

[iwantanewcomputer]

when i start windows on another puter with the corrupted drive plugged in as secondary it says something about bad master boot record. I knoiw the drive is still good cause it has another partition that appears.

any help?


Got everything back from runtime software's getdataback. i tried a few other programs, and none were able to restore the mbr or recover many of the files, but this scanned the hd and let me open up all the folders and copy stuff off

 

[YancyGalutia]

check out hiren's boot cd data retrieval programs or spinrite.

 

[ColemontHD]

Honestly, the best I have found is using my external HD encloser. I had a boss of mine one time that had a corrupted drive with years of taxes on it, plus other things. I was able to take the drive out, put it into my HD encloser, hook it up to my laptop USB, get the files off needed, format the drive, install windows, recover files.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

dont have an external enclosure 🙁 I did the recovery console from windows cd, and the fixmbr command said it wrote a new mbr, but it still shows up as unbootable and when i look at the drive in my computer it doesnt show a size and says E:/ is not accesable, the parameter is incorrect.

are there any (preferably free, non spyware) programs that can open it up?

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

prob solved if this helps anyone else

 

[Seekermeister]

It would help more if you said how you solved your problem.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: Seekermeister
It would help more if you said how you solved your problem.

um...i edited the op. This program allowed me to open the disk up like a healthy one in windows explorer and copy stuff, whereas everything else i tried didnt find any files or gave a bunch of corrupted stuff. pm if you have questions