Hard Drive recovery - interesting results!!!

[david]

Ok, I thought I had lost my Fujistsu drive - large clunking sounds -
Master Slave Failure on boot - put the drive in the freezer and that
didn't work.

Thought it was dead in the water.

I ran a program (demo version) called 'Virtual Labs Data Recovery
Software' - and low and behold it shows me all of my files and which
can be recovered. Yeah, the drive clunked and whirred, but they are
obviously not dead to the world ! So my hard drive is not lost
completely - it must be the boot or something. It is far too
expensive for me to recover the data - it is not important enough for
me to spend the money on, but it will be a pain-in-the-arse getting it
otherwise.

I wonder if there is a free program out there that will help me to get
these files?

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[jona]

Ok, I thought I had lost my Fujistsu drive - large clunking sounds -
Master Slave Failure on boot - put the drive in the freezer and that
didn't work.

Thought it was dead in the water.

I ran a program (demo version) called 'Virtual Labs Data Recovery
Software' - and low and behold it shows me all of my files and which
can be recovered. Yeah, the drive clunked and whirred, but they are
obviously not dead to the world ! So my hard drive is not lost
completely - it must be the boot or something. It is far too
expensive for me to recover the data - it is not important enough for
me to spend the money on, but it will be a pain-in-the-arse getting it
otherwise.

I wonder if there is a free program out there that will help me to get
these files?

Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

Try "BadCopy Pro" at www.juftsoft.com (I think)
or
"PC Inspector" at www.convar.de

I'm not sure about the freeware status, but I think they are.

 

[John B.]

Try "BadCopy Pro" at www.juftsoft.com (I think)
or
"PC Inspector" at www.convar.de

I'm not sure about the freeware status, but I think they are.

The site is: http://www.jufsoft.com/

BadCopy Pro is $39.50
PC Inspector seems to be freeware for home use.