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- 10/10/08 3:51 PM
Carbonite is down
by Doug6476 - 10/8/08 1:40 PM In reply to: ONLINE BACKUP by QuadFatherI have been waiting for 24 hours to restore files from Carbonite, and finally got a tech to say 'you will have to wait a few more hours'. There are evidently no options to switch me to another server, because "my files are backed up on the server that is down". I guess that's what $50 per year buys you. I have been using Carbonite for a few months and it has been worth the money, until now.
Carbonite
by sborsher - 10/8/08 2:16 PM In reply to: Carbonite is down by Doug6476And besides that, how secure is your data there? I would never upload data to a backup facility; ant encryption can be broken given enough time. They can say the data is secure, but so did Countrywide. External drives and fireproof safes are a lot more secure and convenient, especially for giga/terabytes of data.
Recovery Software
by michaelrm63 - 10/6/08 7:32 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Here are some "recovery" softwares that are available to you...www.undelete.com, www.quetek.com,
Software.IVertech.com/NTFSRecovery, PCWorld.com/Recovery-Tools, HDD Regenerator Repair physical bad sectors on damaged hard disk drives.
www.dposoft.net, Extend HDD Life Control HDD reliability and prevent
data loss. HardDriveInspector.com.
I certainly do hope that one of these programs will help you to acheive your goal in recovering data as well as photos.
Good Luck!
Michael
Hard drive failed - solution
by compunerd22 - 10/6/08 7:44 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Put it in the freezer. Most of the time, drives fail due to mechanical malfunction. Freezing the drive causes the metallic parts (bearings, arms, etc) to compress, reducing a lot of friction and generally allowing the drive to spin once again. You may only have a brief window within which to reinstall the drive and pull data, but its better then nothing. Once it heats up and fails again, put it back in the freezer. Do it as many times as the drive can stand it.
There are also data recovery services that can pull data off the platter, but they are UNGODLY expensive and only utilized by big business to retrieve mission critical data. It's not an option to 99.9% of the general population.
-Mike R
Answer for Chuck
by blaiseAdodo13 - 10/6/08 10:38 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
use the Software called get databack,
You can get a copy for £10 in a sunday market
Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive?
by techtype - 10/6/08 11:05 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The question I have is how old is this drive? The reason the question is being asked: Is if it is a recent purchase, The drive manufacture might be able to help. If it is under warranty, they may have software that might be able to help recovery the files. In any event here are a couple of sites that deal with recovery software:
Gibson Research Corporation:
http://www.grc.com/
Gibson has been in the Hard Drive Disc Utilities/Maintenance ever since micro computers were. Let's say since the latter 70's. He has had recovery/maintenance software out before Peter Norton had his utilities out.
Sunbelt Corporation:
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/
These people do forensics on computers
Last but not least is Norton Utilities:
http://www.symantec.com/index.jsp
I have these ordered in recommendation order:
Gibson Research Corporation
Sunbelt Corporation
Norton/Symantec Corporation
It also sounds like it might be faulty electronics. It is the part that tells the disc how to operate. If it is faulty electronics, it may be as simple as replacing the electronics (it does not require going into the hermetically sealed disc enclosure itself). Did she drop it? Was it sat on, if it was a laptop? Did it make funny noises that it did not make before it became inoperative?
Backup, backup, backup
by sbartelski - 10/6/08 3:14 PM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I know it is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted but see above. Feel for you though, both my daughters have been through the same pain, although in both cases I was able to recover more than you seem to be able.
SpinRite 6.0 is the best recovery utility I have used.
by Chemmad - 10/7/08 5:43 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Try using SpinRite. It is a small program that works very well! I have used it to recover at least 3 drives which have died on me for one reason or another. It is worth the money they charge.
Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive.
by nmpurohit - 10/7/08 10:55 PM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Ist remove viruses & then run scan disk. first try it out then next step will be forwarded
Bad Hard Drive
by skypack - 10/8/08 11:23 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The same thing happened to the hard drive in our church computer.
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, make sure all the power and data connections to the drive are solidly connected. I have had experiences where the contacts become tarnished and just removing and replacing the connections was enough to correct the problem.
We were able to recover the files because one of the church members was in a computer service business and, in conducting the business, had saved various pieces of equipment no longer needed by his clients.
He happened to have a contoller card from a disk of the same brand size and model, which he substituted for the bad card in the church computer hard disk and was able to copy the files to a new drive.
The point? Perhaps an aquaintance, or a friend has a good drive of the same brand and size who will lend you his drive controller card that you can replace your bad card with.
I have done this a couple of times ... You don't have to take the drive apart,(at least in my experiences)... the card was fastened to the drive with a couple of screws and there were 3 spring contacts with the drive mechanism that were connected when I screwed the good card to the drive.
Of course, if your drive failed because of mechanical problems ... bad motor or worn bearings, this is not a solution. So listen to the drive, and try to determine if you hear the motor that spins the disks is running.
Good Luck Repairing Drives with Spin Rite
by mjhawkins2346 - 10/8/08 3:10 PM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I can't guarantee that it will work but quite a few bad drives and drives with bad sectors have been recovered with Spin Rite. I think their latest version is v6 but even the older versions (like mine) have repaired previously unrecoverable, unreadable drives. It's at grc.com or Google spinrite.
I have been working with hard disk 4 so many years now.
by m2988 - 10/10/08 11:10 AM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Please make sure your harddisk jumpers are correctly fixed. My esperience on hard disk is that most of the h.d i thought were completely damaged began working after leaving them down for a while. You might not believe this but it really worked for me. It is really hard know what wrong with your hard disk but if your os says its corrupt why not try a different os such as indianhak. It been very good to my and usually iddentifies most drives other os might not identifier or pick. I will consult more people on this and any new thing that comes my way I will let you know.
DART XP Recvoery Software
by bioslug - 10/10/08 5:58 PM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I tried many different pieces of software for my wife's laptop but this extracted nearly all her data, was free to try so I could see what files could be saved, and was relatively inexpensive. I don't think I paid more than $40.
Best of luck, I guess she will be a backup convert in the same manner as my wife.
I used R-studio $80 worked perfectly
by dd_dpa - 10/10/08 6:01 PM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I know money is a bit tight I suggest R Studio
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
I just had this happened to me and i thought all my files were gone I could not get the hard drive to show up in windows I had to go to device manager right click on disk drives then click scan for changes and the HD appeared but it was corrupt I downloaded and used this software it took about 8 hours then I had a blue screen of death but when i turned it back on I ran the program again and i was about to view and retrieve every single file I wanted at least 20 gigs of files with no problem defiently worth the money Highly recomended
Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive
by greatone66 - 10/10/08 6:05 PM In reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i had a hd dr that did the same thing and i put it in a zip lock bag and put it in the freezer for a couple of hrs. then took it out let it thaw at room temp and was lucky the dr started to work and i was able to retrieve all my info from it. i read this in one issue of smart computing
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