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Data retreival
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Data retreival
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:25 am
Posted by Matt Jones
(164 messages posted)
HI, I am trying to recover data from a corrupt hard drive. My computer can see it
in device manager but not in the my computer section. I have used variouse recovery
software but just getting read errors. Most software can not see the drive.
Should I format the drive and then see if I can do a recovery?
Cheers
Matt.
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re: Data retreival
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:37 am
Posted by MartinM
(7544 messages posted)
Formatting the drive is absolutely the wrong thing to do !
And the more you mess with the drive the lower the chance of possible file recovery.
It sounds, on the limited evidence you have given, as though you need a specialist
recovery service which will be very expensive - get a quote first then decide if
your data is worth it.
I would, however, continue your research on a hardware forum as this one is focussed
on XP. "Tom's Hardware" is one of many.
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re: Data retreival
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 9:29 am
Posted by Matt Jones
(164 messages posted)
Ok thanks Martin
Ill keep looking.
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:37 am, MartinM wrote:
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>Formatting the drive is absolutely the wrong thing to do !
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>And the more you mess with the drive the lower the chance of possible file recovery.
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>It sounds, on the limited evidence you have given, as though you need a specialist
>recovery service which will be very expensive - get a quote first then decide if
>your data is worth it.
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>I would, however, continue your research on a hardware forum as this one is focussed
>on XP. "Tom's Hardware" is one of many.
>
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re: Data retreival
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:34 am
Posted by Chuck
(128 messages posted)
I was able to recover all the data from a corrupt hard drive using Linux Puppy.
It took some playing around with and some help from the Linux Puppy Forum, but I
was eventually successful.
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:25 am, Matt Jones wrote:
>HI, I am trying to recover data from a corrupt hard drive. My computer can see it
>in device manager but not in the my computer section. I have used variouse recovery
>software but just getting read errors. Most software can not see the drive.
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>Should I format the drive and then see if I can do a recovery?
>
>Cheers
>Matt.
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re: Data retreival
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Posted by Ricer46
(23818 messages posted)
Consider yourself fortunate, in the future, back up important data, before you put
it at risk.
On Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 11:34 am, Chuck wrote:
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>I was able to recover all the data from a corrupt hard drive using Linux Puppy.
>It took some playing around with and some help from the Linux Puppy Forum, but I
>was eventually successful.
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>
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