Data Recovery

[tonman23]

tonman i tried it the drives show up but when i click on them and click browse it says "Drive not found!"

It's not looking to good for me.

I'm going to get the full verion of onTrack software 2night and see what happens, wish me luck.

GL let me know how it goes. If u dont have any luck don't give up, many different things to try

[BiGg RiE]

Ok so I got the full version of onTack but still to no avail I did a raw data recovery of both partition one is 68GB and the other is 96GB, after the scan i extracted the .swf, .jpeg files and tried to open them and the didn't open then I tried to open them on a different system, no luck there either. My next step is to try opening them on a mac and then one more pc if that doesn't work then I'll be formating these partitions and starting from scratch.

Oh also when I start the scan of either partition i get this message:

"Error encountered while scanning partition"

It still scanns but the message never goes away.

Thanks ofr all ur help on this and if anyone has any other suggestion I'd greatly appreciate it.

BiGg RiE

[camarokid]

I had a customer once, whose hard drive was not only corrupted but reformatted, as well. I used a program called "Recover My Files" and I was able to recover most of their photos, spreadsheets, even their sizable address book. It ran overnight with their hard drive as a slave in my box. What a mess to go through afterwards, though, because as you likely know, every time the file is physically moved on the harddrive (i.e. via a defrag or other means), it leaves a trace of itself that remains there unless it is overwritten, so, when I ran the tool, it would find a half dozen instances of many of the files, but it did work amazingly well. That was a great experience with an amazing little program. Good Luck!

[BiGg RiE]

I had a customer once, whose hard drive was not only corrupted but reformatted, as well. I used a program called "Recover My Files" and I was able to recover most of their photos, spreadsheets, even their sizable address book. It ran overnight with their hard drive as a slave in my box. What a mess to go through afterwards, though, because as you likely know, every time the file is physically moved on the harddrive (i.e. via a defrag or other means), it leaves a trace of itself that remains there unless it is overwritten, so, when I ran the tool, it would find a half dozen instances of many of the files, but it did work amazingly well. That was a great experience with an amazing little program. Good Luck!

Ok, I'll try it and post results.

[BiGg RiE]

OK, so I though I tried the Recover my files software before but I couldn't get it to run I would keep crashing when I tried to launch it. Any way I got it to install and run and out of 69GB it found 1 lone PDF file and I couldn't even open that when I tried to preview it I got a message saying that the file was corrupt.

I just remembered something that is most likely the cause of my not being able to use all of these utilities. I had my drive and all of it's partitions encrypted with PGP encryption software. Don't ask me why I'm just now remembering that, let's just atribute it to a very Looong "Senior Moment"

In any case I guess the best question form here is would the fact that the files I'm trying to recover are encryted mean that i'm completely and totaly screwed? Also, should I install PGP again and try to access the file through that?

[road]

Sounds right. Anything encrpyted would need the encryption program installed and the same key it generated when they were encrypted to decrypt them now after recovery. Some of those work differently but I thought pgp did text only:

"Enables users to encrypt ASCII text only (including HTML, plaintext like email, Word and Excel documents, but not other types of files such as images)."

So I'm not sure the .pdf would have even needed decryption. Corrupt?

Here is a free util that I've used to convince folks to run Eraser occasionally.
On the following link download "File recovery Version 4.0"
http://www.pcinspector.de/download.asp? ... e_recovery

Make sure the recovered files are being written to a different disk.

Hang in there man, watch that clock and cut your losses if you have to get back to recreating the work.

I lost a few files that way when on a whim I turned XP's file encryption on some folders. I never researched how to backup the encryption key and when the drive started to die, I could recover the files but had no damn key.

[BiGg RiE]

ok, so I installed pgp and nothing different happend I don't know what I should do should I rerun all the softwares that I ran previously? I know what thepassword of my old encryption is but I don't get promted for it. I guess i should call PGP and explain y situation and take suggestions.

I'll try that and post result.