Re: [OT] Disc rescue...

[Dave Ward <DFHWukha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Spinrite  from www.grc.com gets rave reviews.

Thankfully I've not had a really bad drive to test it on yet, but it has
helped when working out if its the drive or the install that's at fault.

(I bought it to pay back Steve Gibson for the very informative Security
Now podcast  he does with Leo Laporte)

Dave


Phil Harris wrote:
> A while ago someone on here had a drive get corrupted and recovered
the data
> themselves - if you're out there can you tell me tool(s) you used (or
were
> recommended to try) to recover the data?
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> Just had my sister-in-law call and her PC's gone titsup ... haven't
seen it
> yet but some "PC bloke" has swapped out the hard disc for a
new one and
> reinstalled the OS etc. and has told her that the drive is corrupt but
> (intelligently IMO) instead of just nuking the drive and reinstalling
put in
> a new one so that she could try to get the data back off the old one.
> Unfortunately the hard disc holds all her files for her little
business that
> she's just started up and no, it wasn't backed up!
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> I haven't seen the drive yet but my understanding is that it still
spins up
> fine, it's just that it won't get through booting so it might not be
too
> bad. Should have the drive with me sometime this weekend I expect.
>
> (And yes, I will be sorting her out with Norton Ghost and an external
> drive.)
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> Cheers
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> Phil
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