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Stevepppp
My pc froze while I was in the process of moving a few files around. I
waited a few minutes without luck and was forced to shutdown manually.
Doing so lost the MBR file structure (Drive is no longer recognized by
windows xp). I'm looking for a fast fix. My drive storage is 750G so a
thorough deep recovery is not an option. There's many recovery
programs and I'm too busy to try them all. Anyone have a quick fix
suggestion. TIA.
Here's what I've sampled a little so far:
GetDataBack
Straight forward and robust. Deep disk seek and rescue.
Runs in windows in the background without consuming too much
resorces.
Issues:
For large storage disks, it can take 100 hours to complete!
Worse, there is no resume capability. You quit, you have to start
all over again from scratch.
So if your drive is large and only the mbr file structure was lost
(files weren't corrupt) avoid GDB.
Diskpatch
Never finished the free trial because there were issues from the
getgo
that gave the clear impression to stop while I was ahead.
Fdisk/MBR
Robust for MBR recovery in the right hands.
Issues:
Tricky and potentially harmful. Leave it alone unless you are very
experienced and confident.
Spinrite
Haven't tried it.
Many online complaints, despite glossy promoting.
Promoted by Wikipedia, another reason to be skeptical.
Active Partition Recovery Tools
Never finished the free trial because there were issues from the
getgo
that gave the clear impression to stop while I was ahead.
DataRecoveryWizard
Never finished the free trial because there were issues from the
getgo
that gave the clear impression to stop while I was ahead.
Norton Partition Table Doctor
Not only doesn't it recover the original MBR/Partition table
information,
but much worse, it creates its own! Believe it or not.
I personally avoid almost anything Norton makes with a ten foot pole.
waited a few minutes without luck and was forced to shutdown manually.
Doing so lost the MBR file structure (Drive is no longer recognized by
windows xp). I'm looking for a fast fix. My drive storage is 750G so a
thorough deep recovery is not an option. There's many recovery
programs and I'm too busy to try them all. Anyone have a quick fix
suggestion. TIA.
Here's what I've sampled a little so far:
GetDataBack
Straight forward and robust. Deep disk seek and rescue.
Runs in windows in the background without consuming too much
resorces.
Issues:
For large storage disks, it can take 100 hours to complete!
Worse, there is no resume capability. You quit, you have to start
all over again from scratch.
So if your drive is large and only the mbr file structure was lost
(files weren't corrupt) avoid GDB.
Diskpatch
Never finished the free trial because there were issues from the
getgo
that gave the clear impression to stop while I was ahead.
Fdisk/MBR
Robust for MBR recovery in the right hands.
Issues:
Tricky and potentially harmful. Leave it alone unless you are very
experienced and confident.
Spinrite
Haven't tried it.
Many online complaints, despite glossy promoting.
Promoted by Wikipedia, another reason to be skeptical.
Active Partition Recovery Tools
Never finished the free trial because there were issues from the
getgo
that gave the clear impression to stop while I was ahead.
DataRecoveryWizard
Never finished the free trial because there were issues from the
getgo
that gave the clear impression to stop while I was ahead.
Norton Partition Table Doctor
Not only doesn't it recover the original MBR/Partition table
information,
but much worse, it creates its own! Believe it or not.
I personally avoid almost anything Norton makes with a ten foot pole.