GetDataBack... thinking about using it to resurrect my lost C: drive

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This program looks promising to resurrect my lost C: drive (see earlier
thread for more details). I found a reference to it in conjunction with
Acronis Partition Expert, but are both programs necessary? Anyone have
experience with GetDataBack? Did it work or did it disappoint?
Thanks.
--Jerry
 
legal said:
This program looks promising to resurrect my lost C: drive (see
earlier thread for more details). I found a reference to it in
conjunction with Acronis Partition Expert, but are both programs
necessary? Anyone have experience with GetDataBack? Did it work or
did it disappoint?
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Worked.
Doesn't mean it will work for you...
 
Sorry...I can't see your earlier thread so I don't have the details. I have
"resurrected" bad drives in the past using SpinRite (from www.grc.com).
Depending on the nature of the problem, it may be another alternative.

Tim
 
Jerry, did you try to see if you see the files with the german free
recovery program? I mean just to look?

nora
(who recently managed to transfer most of the files from an external
disk.)
 
The former thread was called

"Upgrade to XP Pro from XP Home....when XP Home not working "

where he gives a lot of details.

nora
 
nora said:
Jerry, did you try to see if you see the files with the german free
recovery program? I mean just to look?

nora
(who recently managed to transfer most of the files from an external
disk.)
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Waiting for delivery of new hard drive. Once that's up to speed, I'll make
the old drive a slave and see what can be done (with whatever programs). But
thanks for thinking about me.
;-)
 
nora said:
Jerry, did you try to see if you see the files with the german free
recovery program? I mean just to look?

nora
(who recently managed to transfer most of the files from an external
disk.)
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Nora,
Decided to hook the old drive to another machine at work. Installed PC
Inspector to the other machine and gave it the ol' college try. I had it
look for a "lost drive" and it reflected all the files in the "root"
directly portion of the interface. I selected all and asked it to save the
files to a folder I put on the desktop. It ran through the files pretty
quickly (that is, the blue progress marker thingy).... and it's currently
saving. However, the amount of minutes for completion seems a bit
astronomical: 71582784 minutes. Could this be correct? (or will the number
reduce down quickly?) I only hope that no one sees fit to fiddle with the
computer or accidentally kick my hard drive which is hanging off the side of
the open machine.
All in all, now that I know it CAN work, if I have to stop the office
machine from doing its job, I can always hook the drive up to my regular
machine once I fit it with a new drive.
Thanks for all your support. I'll keep you posted.
--Jerry
 
legal process said:
Nora,
Decided to hook the old drive to another machine at work. Installed PC
Inspector to the other machine and gave it the ol' college try. I had it
look for a "lost drive" and it reflected all the files in the "root"
directly portion of the interface. I selected all and asked it to save the
files to a folder I put on the desktop. It ran through the files pretty
quickly (that is, the blue progress marker thingy).... and it's currently
saving. However, the amount of minutes for completion seems a bit
astronomical: 71582784 minutes. Could this be correct? (or will the number
reduce down quickly?) I only hope that no one sees fit to fiddle with the
computer or accidentally kick my hard drive which is hanging off the side
of the open machine.
All in all, now that I know it CAN work, if I have to stop the office
machine from doing its job, I can always hook the drive up to my regular
machine once I fit it with a new drive.
Thanks for all your support. I'll keep you posted.
--Jerry
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Correction: ".... 'root' directory..."
;-)
 
Went down to 3 minutes... but now it's back up to the 8-digit high
number..... What the hay!
 
Well, after it looked like it would cycle through from almost finished to
finished a week next Tuesday, I stopped the process and saved over one
folder (or several folders) at a time. Of course, some files within folders
would save, but I have no need for ini and other similar files... a I really
need are files/folders containing data that can be dropped onto a newly
formatted/initiated hard drive (such as emails, scans, My Documents, etc.).

In any event, the dang thing just finished and I'm in the process of saving
it all over to an external Seagate for later infusion next week.

Thanks to everyone for their help. Thanks, 'specially, to Nora.

--Jerry
 
Nora here. I was busy having birthday and so on. Glad to see you got
access to files.

About the time, yes, I had these astronomical amounts of minutes too,
but the real minutes were much faster. I guess the times were for
USB1.

One caution about this program, with an wxternal drive it may jump to
the recycle bin first and the files there are not complete, just be
sure to go to root.

One day I will try the windows ultimate boot disk.
I have used the Gparted program from the linux live disks before, for
partionioning and erasing and it can resize partitions .
Maybe the windows ulitamate boot disk can repair the MBR.
Sometimes disks will hget some defects, and if it happens to be in the
MBR things like that will happen.

That is the reason one should do a complete reformat when using the
disk again, as Windows will mark the faulty space and not use it and
wverything should be fine until the next fault happens.

I think they have a program they run to check new disks and then they
run that program after lets's say a year , or sooner? to weed out
disks withproblems. (I mean I read that professionals do that in
larger companies)

nora
 
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