Hard drive pwned

DeusEx · Post by **DeusEx** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:11 pm

my friends hard drive failed. can you please reccomend some programs to recover the data from them?

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Fri May 04, 2007 5:18 am

http://www.file-recovery.net

I had good luck with that program

Mike

stopthekilling77 · Post by **stopthekilling77** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:07 am

let me know how that one works for you! i may have to do the same on this little 20Gb Maxtor (yeah its old) soon, and i'd like to know how it works for you

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:23 am

I've used getdataback NTFS with success also...

http://www.runtime.org/downloads.htm

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Fri May 04, 2007 8:53 am

The Freezer

respek · Post by **respek** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:38 pm

My 200gb WD just failed about a month ago for reasons unknown. I tried the freezer method at first it didn't work..so I let it thaw out and put it back in, windows ran checkdisk on boot and started correcting errors until it stopped on another error. After the reboot I had to manually initiate the drive in admin tools only to find out that I could not access the data. Long story short, I got myself a external enclosure, put in the frozen drive and it turns out I had a corrupted MFT. I managed to recover about 100gb of data off the 200gb drive with Active UNDELETE recovery software. After that I formatted the drive but the strange thing is XP can't access the drive but with the external box it works fine. Right before it failed I had a S.M.A.R.T. spin-up time failure, yet the drive seems to work fine. I still need to know if I should use this drive or toss it.

Does anyone know how to check S.M.A.R.T. status on external drives?

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:39 pm

with something like that happen i would toss the drive. that is just something waiting to happen. LOL

respek · Post by **respek** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:22 pm

Yes but we all know how useless S.M.A.R.T. is for predicting drive failure. A lot of times S.M.A.R.T. will show a error yet the drive will continue to keep working. This is evident from the study google did back in Feb (http://searchengineland.com/070219-092214.php). I'm trying to get SpinRite to detect this drive but for some reason it doesn't detect the NTFS partition I formatted earlier with XP. SpinRite is probably the best program for maintaining hard drives.