recover data

[anikhtos]

i need a good utility to recover data from a hard drive. which one is the best??

 

[Blain]

You should give more information about the HD problem as well as the OS used.
Are you looking at only "free" software or are you willing to spend a buck to get your data back?

* Boot from a Knoppix LiveCD and move data from HD to a flash drive.
* Recuva with the HD as a slave.

 

[ummduh]

I'm using Easeus Data Recovery right now on a 2TB drive that I a recent upgrade destroyed.. So far it's been a VERY long VERY tedious process, but it's definitely getting the data back.. It took 26 hours to scan the drive to begin with, took several hours for me to select the files I wanted to recover out of the 2,000TB of data it found it could recover, and now I'm about 3 hours into copying 344GB of data over USB 2.0.. argh..

There is another TB or so of data I could still recover from it, but I'll be happy enough to have the first round back.

I started with Recuva, but did not like it as it copied all the recovered data into a single folder. This program actually puts it back just as it was but on a different drive. The file structure stays intact.

 

[anikhtos]

You should give more information about the HD problem as well as the OS used.
Are you looking at only "free" software or are you willing to spend a buck to get your data back?

* Boot from a Knoppix LiveCD and move data from HD to a flash drive.
* Recuva with the HD as a slave.

i had windows xp x64 installed and now at boot i get the message
windows\config file is missing or corrupt
so i want a softwaret to repair that error and restore the files at that directory

 

[Old Hippie]

Have you tried an XP repair install?

 

[anikhtos]

Have you tried an XP repair install?

yes and what a disaster that was
it boot to windows only to find all devices from scratch
all the drivers were install them at your own risk
and hmmmmmmmm usb did not work
so no usb mouse to navigate and hmmmmmmm i had a hard time finding a mouse and a keyboard at ps/2 thank gods the motherbaord had 2 ps/2 inputs or else i could still be stack in the install screen with no mouse to do anything. and the cherry was i need to re activate windows lol
yeap i wonder what on earth it repaired it would have been faster to reinsall it

 

[Old Hippie]

yes and what a disaster that was
it boot to windows only to find all devices from scratch
all the drivers were install them at your own risk
and hmmmmmmmm usb did not work
so no usb mouse to navigate and hmmmmmmm i had a hard time finding a mouse and a keyboard at ps/2 thank gods the motherbaord had 2 ps/2 inputs or else i could still be stack in the install screen with no mouse to do anything. and the cherry was i need to re activate windows lol
yeap i wonder what on earth it repaired it would have been faster to reinsall it

Ahhhh, does that mean it worked?