Data Recovery

[Morrison5891]

Well, thanks to everyone that replied and tried to help. I was unable to recover ANYTHING from this drive. Can't win them all, I guess.

 

[Doctor Micro]

I bet someone isn't telling you the complete story.

I agree 100%. If it really went down as the user said, you should have been able to get a lot of data back.

 

[studiot]

Sometimes it is not the (lady) owner, but 'little Johnny' who has done something his parents don't know about or aren't mentioning.

 

[MCSTECH]

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say this -

Sometimes I have Very little luck recovering files using Windows computers.

I have lately been using a Mac with "DATA RESCUE" and mounting the "DISK" then Making the "target" a different disk.

The Mac file recovery seems to be TONS better - and I have much higher success rate.

 

[tankman1989]

I'll throw my hat in the ring and say this -

Sometimes I have Very little luck recovering files using Windows computers.

I have lately been using a Mac with "DATA RESCUE" and mounting the "DISK" then Making the "target" a different disk.

The Mac file recovery seems to be TONS better - and I have much higher success rate.

I agree to an extent but use Linux instead of Windows or a Mac/

 

[JosephLeo]

I agree to an extent but use Linux instead of Windows or a Mac/

I doubt platform matters at this level...I just use whatever works...right now my setups are as follows.

Gaming Rig

• Windows XP Professional 64-Bit
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit
  [*]Coming Soon - Windows 7 Premium 64-Bit

Workstation PC

• Windows XP Home
• Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit
• Windows 7 Premium 64-Bit
• Ubuntu 9.10 32-Bit
• Ubuntu 9.10 64-Bit

Laptop

• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit

Portable Workstation (Netbook)

• Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit
• Ubuntu 9.10 64-Bit

I also have an iMac with Leopard installed- scared to upgrade to Snow Leopard. and a custom NAS with FreeNAS Linux installed.

My workstation has data recovery software in the 64-Bit partitions of Windows Vista and Linux but no where else since I mostly work in 64-Bit only.