J. W. McCall said:
Does anyone know of any free data recovery software? I need to recover
an entire drive that is showing up as unformatted. It's due to
malicious meddling if it matters (angry ex-wife).
Any help would be appreciated. There's a lot of irreplacable stuff on
that drive (it's my data drive). If nooone knows of any free programs,
can someone recommend one that works well and is relatively inexpensive?
Thanks a lot,
J. W. McCall
Hav'nt had to use any of these .
Handy Recovery
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=11&cat=014
http://www.handyrecovery.com/
Handy Recovery is an easy to use program designed to restore files
accidentally deleted from a hard disk or a diskette. The program can
recover files damaged by virus attacks, power failures and software
faults. If some program does not use Recycle Bin when deleting files,
Handy Recovery can restore such files. It can also recover files moved
to Recycle Bin after it has been emptied. With Handy Recovery you can
browse the content of your disk like you do it in Windows Explorer.
The only difference is that you see deleted files and folders along
with the regular ones. Deleted files are marked with special icons.
This helps you easily find the file that you need to recover.
Recovered files can be saved to any disks accessible on your system.
You can also restore the full branch of folders tree containing
selected files and folders. Along with the main file data, the program
can recover alternative data streams which are used on NTFS file
system to store additional information about files. Handy Recovery
works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. The
program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives
including FAT12/16/32 and NTFS/NTFS 5
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Deleted File Analysis Utility Freeware
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=4&cat=014
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?go=13764
http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Deleted an important file? Find out what accidentally deleted files
you can get back. This freeware can directly view your hard drive
partition and list all deleted files that have not yet been completely
overwritten. Runs on Windows NT®, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
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http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports
the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS
file systems. The current version 3.x replaces the previous version
2.x, which is now over
6 years old.
Files accidentally deleted or any data from a formated hard disk, Zip,
Jaz or floppy disk, can
be recovered along with original folder names and file Create and
Modified dates within minutes.
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http://2003.pricelessware.org/PL2003FILEUTILITIES.htm#UndeleteTool
Drive Rescue (freeware) OS: Win9x/NT/ME/2000/XP
(English)
Drive Rescue is a program for exploring your hard disk, and locating
lost files on it. The idea
for this program originated from processing a disk with
Scandisk--which suddenly contained no
data. Since off-the-shelf Windows methods could not recover any of it,
this program was
successfully created, to find important information of the file
system, to look for lost data
and to restore it.
Program description:
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.html
Download:
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.zip
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SectorSpyXP/98
http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?page=6&cat=24
http://home.carolina.rr.com/lexunfreeware/
Professional forensics analysis and data recovery tool for computer
hard drives and diskettes
Examine all data on a hard drive or diskette, at the sector level! Use
SectorSpyXP/98
forensically to find and retrieve incriminating evidence!
SectorSpyXP/98 will not write any
information to the media, avoiding contamination! You can override
this with a key. Retrieve
lost information, text that has been deleted and removed from the
recycle bin, like e-mails,
Word documents, notepad and WordPad documents, Excel spreadsheets,
database text data, and any
text data that has been written to the hard drive, and not yet
overwritten by the operating
system! Append text information evidence to a text file. Search for
keywords! Navigate the
sectors! Supports the following file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
Supports Windows 95/98/NT3.51/NT4.0/ME/2000/XP operating system
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Copy It Anyway
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/fileman_3.html
http://www.digitalsystem.co.yu/download.html
Win95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP
A program for copying corrupted files which can't be copied the
standard way because of some error on media the file is stored on.
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Disk Investigator
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html
What is Disk Investigator? - Disk Investigator helps you to discover
all that is hidden on
your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data.
Display the true drive
contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the
raw drive sectors. View
and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors.
Verify the effectiveness of
file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files.
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Data Recovery
http://www.geocities.com/prestonlewis/
Data Recovery.Zip ( Freeware )
Repairs hard drive damage from virus, fdisk problems, formatting
mistakes, power failures and application errors. For FAT16 or FAT32.
1st exe. is Fat16 , 2nd Fat32 .
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Recover32
http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils4.html
Recover32 (win98) disk sectors recovery: Hit by a virus? Formatted
hard disk by mistake? Deleted files but can't undelete them? No
problem, as long as you remember some "keywords"
(any bytes sequences) which was appearing in your files, and you
didn't overwrite associated disk sectors with other files. (examples:
you had an address book which contained string
"myfriend @ hisserver.net", or you had a bookmark file which
contained string "
www.xxx.com / y.htm", etc). Depending on the type
of your disk, you can download one of my two utilities. Recov for
FAT16 disks (DOS and windows 95) or Recov32 for FAT32 disks
(windows 98). First run a disk editor (like winhex) to locate sectors
where your files resided. In case you have FAT16 disk and use my
recov utility, you must use "logical disks" option. In case you have
FAT32 disk and use my recov32 utility, you must use "physical disks"
option. Remember the sector, and discard offset information. Then run
my disk sectors recovery. Just type its exe filename in the DOS
prompt, and the instructions (proper arguments syntax) will appear.
Few more hints. ZIP files can be recognized by string "PK" & chr(3)
& chr(4), that's bytes sequence 504B0304hex. ARJ files can be
recognized by their actual filenames in the header, like MYFILE.ARJ
string. Recov.zip (Win95 FAT16) ~4Kb
