Know of any good hard drive recovery software?
Saturday, June 18, 2005 by bordfryr | Discussion: Personal Computing
My wife's hard drive crashed and I'm looking for a good recovery program. Anyone have any good or bad experiences? Thanks! 
PurrBall
Reply #3 Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:50 AM
Reply #3 Sunday, June 19, 2005 6:50 AM
BartPE. Used it. It provides a Windows-Like interface, and allows you to plug in portable hardware, and free. You can use the file browser to browse your entire hard drive and external drives. It can recover anything you choose to your portable drive and transfer to another computer so you can reformat. 
bordfryr
Reply #4 Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:07 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:07 PM
Tried Spinrite. Didn't work. I think the drive is too far gone. Can only recognize 10MB of 80GB.
Hope I can get a refund. $89.00.
I'm not sure about BartPE. I don't want to install an os, just recover data from it.
Hope I can get a refund. $89.00.
I'm not sure about BartPE. I don't want to install an os, just recover data from it.
Chris TH
Reply #5 Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:57 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:57 PM
Have a look at http://www.ubcd4win.com/
It utilises BartPE and you end up with a bootable CD (much like BartPE) but it has a load of included utilities that you can use to diagnose & recover disks etc. It can even be setup to access the 'net so you can download drivers etc.
I've used it for recovering registry hives etc very successfully.
It utilises BartPE and you end up with a bootable CD (much like BartPE) but it has a load of included utilities that you can use to diagnose & recover disks etc. It can even be setup to access the 'net so you can download drivers etc.
I've used it for recovering registry hives etc very successfully.
bordfryr
Reply #6 Monday, June 20, 2005 12:23 AM
Reply #6 Monday, June 20, 2005 12:23 AM
I am running GetDataBack right now. Looks promising.
bordfryr
Reply #7 Monday, June 20, 2005 7:38 AM
Reply #7 Monday, June 20, 2005 7:38 AM
I can see a lot of file names, but everything looks like gibberish. 
PurrBall
Reply #8 Monday, June 20, 2005 5:29 PM
It's just a bootable CD. D/l PE Builder, put an XP cd into the drive, and it will build BartPE into a folder, and then burn it to a CD. Not installing an OS.
Reply #8 Monday, June 20, 2005 5:29 PM
| I'm not sure about BartPE. I don't want to install an os, just recover data from it. |
It's just a bootable CD. D/l PE Builder, put an XP cd into the drive, and it will build BartPE into a folder, and then burn it to a CD. Not installing an OS.
DrJBHL
Reply #10 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:37 AM
Reply #10 Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:37 AM
RyanBanks, this thread is from 2005. Unlikely the folks are still having the problem.
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Reply #1 Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:56 AM
Hope this may work out for ya. i recovered about 96% of my lost data.