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A FREE way to recover data: Linux LiveCD

by mmckaibab - 7/11/09 2:13 PM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

I stumbled on Linux LiveCD a couple of hard drive failures ago. You can find all sorts of free variations with a simple Google search. You download it, burn it to a bootable CD or DVD, set your system to boot from disc and then boot up. Unless you've got major physical damage, it's likely the version of Linux that boots up will be able to see your drive and, more importantly, the data on your drive. It will also recognize an external USB drive and then let you copy files from the drive on your system to the USB drive. Of course it helps if you're doing regular backups so that you only have the most recent changes to copy. I don't understand why folks are paying money for software programs when this is available for free.

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recover data from hard drive

by phi-crash - 1/17/10 5:06 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

recover data from hard drive,
recover data from hard drive - best program!

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Piriform Recuva

by RecoverMaster - 12/13/10 10:34 PM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

Here it is! This one actually worked and totally free guys!!! FREE!

-- http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/standard

This program no kidding recovered all the files on my corrupt WD 1TB Passport! Just let it do a quick scan and don't forget to check the appropriate boxes on the options menu! If you have any questions let me know Good luck guys!

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Don't make any physical manipulation with a hard drive

by Lanqu - 3/19/11 4:06 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

Hi! It would be nice if you provide the model of your hard drive, as well as any signs of breakage. You said that there were no sounds heard. As far as I know this may be a breaking the hard disk controller, you can read about it here (http://hddrecovering.com/2011/failures-of-hard-drive-controller). This is a fairly common problem.
If you have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, then the program could be broken down (http://hddrecovering.com/2011/failure-of-micro-program). After installing the new firmware everything will work.
If you hear clicking sounds or recalibration, but the disc does not start, you could break down other elements. Relate your symptoms with possible breakdowns: http://hddrecovering.com/category/hard-drive-failures/
But don't panic! Information is still on the hard drive. Information recovery is cheaper than buying Acronis and other programs for recovery.

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Re: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive?

by DavisBennett - 6/17/11 2:14 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

If the drive was corrupted and while you connect your drive to your system as a slave then only one thing you need is an efficient data recovery software to recover your data, go for Kernel for FAT and NTFS hard disk data recovery software to recover your data and files of any kind, It can recover all your pics (all file type), office files, videos & exe's. You can check the existence of your data in scan mode in RED color and then can save all or required files or folders to your location, it can recover large amount of data.
for more details just go through windowsdatarecovery.com

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by ProfDrMHS - 8/6/11 2:37 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

I recently crashed my external USB hard disk. A western DIgital passport 500GB. There was no data recoverable on Mac or on Windows. Tried all the software and hardware ricks that i know of and no way.
Spin right is great but for internal hard disks. it does not identify USB drives
SmartData Recovery is the same.. if the disk is unreadable by windows, it can not find it.
I downloaded the registered version of Recover my Files (version 4.6.6) and it worked like a charm.. it looked for lost partitions then for files.. it takes some time.. it is true, but i could recover all my files and data.
CGsecurity would only scan for images and works on Linux on a mac, so not very comfortable and not easy to use at all.
I hope this post will help others in my same situation!

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CGSecurity

by DCLongshot - 8/27/11 10:08 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

My laptop recently was taken out (by lightning I think) It would start up and then restart while loading XP. My new laptop in Win7...
does anyone know if I were to attach it to a USB-SATA cable and run CGSecurity Testdisk, would I need to DL the 64bit Windows version or the 32bit Windows version? The old HDD was 32bit XP and the new one is 64bit Win7

Thanks guys!

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by MarkFlax - 8/27/11 1:25 PM

In Reply to: CGSecurity by DCLongshot

It's not always a good idea to bury questions in such old threads. This one is now 3 years old and generally visitors to this forum 'move on' when they see these older discussions resurface.

However, I'm here now, so let's see if I can offer any help.

What do you hope to achieve by running this Testdisk application? What I mean is, XP doesn't work now anyway so running this app won't fix that. It will only say the disk is fine, or the disk is not fine.

But if you pull that disk and attach an external USB cable to it, then just plug that in to the Win 7 system, Windows will soon tell you whether the disk is working or not, and if so, your files might be available to be copied off. No need for any 3rd party apps, and Win 7 doesn't care if this drive has a 32 bit OS on it or not. To Win 7 they are just files.

There's another alternative. Keep that drive in the XP system, then on your new Win 7 download "Ubuntu Live CD" and burn that to a CD as an ISO. Take the CD to the XP system and boot up with it.

Ubuntu Live CD is the Linux Ubuntu OS installed on a CD. No knowledge is required of Ubuntu and it does not install on the hard drive. However, if that hard drive still works, Ubuntu will see it and that allows you to copy off the files you need.

Hope that helps.

Mark

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This method worked - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

by indianinworld - 10/15/11 2:39 PM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

Folks

Well my scenario is this

1 TB Samsung Internal HDD.

I wanted to use this as a external HDD using a external HDD with the help of SATA - USB HDD Enclosure.

however foolishly, while formatting the HDD - i made 4 drives in this 1 TB HDD. THen while formatting i formatted the two 250 GB drives by connecting the HDD internally in the PC.

Then formatted the 470 GB drive using the external enclosure (somehow without thinking i did it)

Then thinking copying data from PC HDD to this HDD using internal connection will be fast, i connected this HDD and copied all my data to the 250 GB drives.

now I formatted my original PC. Installed the OS and now when i connected this new 1 TB HDD using a enclousure using USB, then this didnt work at all. only the 450 GB drive was listed and rest of the drives were not listed at all. I tried and tried and tried. But nothing worked

Most of the programs to recover files were pay and use and during evalutation period they only show list of files. those didnt help me in any way.

Now after using the program in this link
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

wow, i have to say that i recovered my needed 260 GB of data - with the original file names. ALL Data, i mean it.

Please note that my thingy was not so complicated to back up becos i didnt format the HDD or there was no crash on my HDD. It is just that i connected using a enclosure and two drives where data was present disappeared. Similarly i believe if i would have connected my HDD internally in a PC, i should have got my data back without hassle.

Thank you so much for giving this link in this site. Thanks for all ur efforts.

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I have the solution for corrupted Hdisk

by geniuzgrost233 - 1/14/12 11:54 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

Guys,

I hope want I share helps you... Few months back, my pendrive which contains thesis, was corrupted and I not yet made a back up of the thesis... It struck my head hard and i feel i want to jump from a building... hahaha... When I click to open the pendrive, It says "Your harddrive is corrupted, do you want to format?" HELL NO!!! So, I surf on the net with a hope of finding something. AND GUESS WHAT??? I did find something useful... Not only that, it's free and only required a few step... For full guide... Visits >>> http://laptop-problem.blogspot.com/2012/01/repair-corrupted-hard-drives-pendrives.html <<< You won't regret this.... This is for the corrupted hard drives issue... Good Luck!!!

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When all else fails

by DianeOllivettMiles - 2/26/12 10:19 AM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

It does not always work, but remove the hard drive, put it into the freezer overnight, then plug it in to a computer and open and copy files quickly! I have salvaged several this way with only a few failures.

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data recovery software

by mylovem - 3/1/12 11:31 PM

In Reply to: Ways to recover data from a corrupt hard drive? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)

minitool data recovery software is also good, .

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