Recovering data from a Windows hard drive

[stevenamills]

Like most people here, I assume, I use an external USB connection to access hard drives for data recovery. On drives that show no severe hardware issues I generally have been using Windows and just copying the data to a local server. Twice in the last month a great chunk of the data didn't make the transfer and, fortunately, I caught it and accessed the data with something else.

The Linux distributions never seem to have this issue, nor do intelligent programs like GetDataBack. Windows just issued an "access denied" to a very important directory.

I'm wondering, do others find Windows totally inappropriate for data recovery and rely on other systems like Knoppix exclusively?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Jory]

Your best bet is to use some type of boot disk and save the data to a USB drive, or over a network like you're doing. I typically end up using UBCD4Win.

 

[ithinkyou5.0]

i generaly use knoppix because its quick and easy and you dont have to **** around with not being able to move/view sys files

 

[TimeCode]

UBCD4Win or Knoppix.

 

[l337]

most the time knoppix or UBCD or minipe are awesome im actually finding a program on minipe Getdataback ntfs or fat32 to be a very efficent program