I have used a program called Spinrite from Gibson Research for years.
Depending on exactly what the fault was, it may be able to repair the
problem. It can take a very long time to run on a bad drive. I believe you
can still download a full copy for a limited time trial at
http://www.grc.com if I remember correctly. That is also the home of
ShieldsUp someone mentioned recently.
Hmmm, I just went to the site and it looks like version 5 may be available
for free but I did not find a trial thing for version 6. BTW, version 6 is
far from new. Steve has been promising an upgrade to 6 for years but seems
to have too many other projects to get it done. I suspect that is because
he is old like me. :)
On 11/30/06, MIchael Sammartano <
volinaz@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Where did you get McAfee from? The company name is Kroll OnTrack and they
> are a global company that deals with DATA RECOVERY, not anti malware. Yes
> it
> may be expensive to purchase, but what is the information lost worth?
> Welcome to the Digital Information Age. The more we store on disk, the
> more
> likely the odds are that we will have to pay the price to recover, as we
> all
> know all physical things eventually die, no matter how redundant we may
> be!
>
> http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "eculbert" <eculbert@yahoo.com>
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Drive Recovery Software
>
>
> > --- MIchael Sammartano <volinaz@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If chkdsk /R does not work, there is a program
> >> called EasyRecovery. It will
> >> try to recover all of the windows based filesystems,
> >> and RAW. I do not
> >> remember to it was free, of if I had paid for it.
> >> \\\
> >
> > ////////////////////
> >
> > Its from McAfee, so you know, bend over!
> >
> > http://buyonline.ontrack.com/ecom/catalog.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1
> >
> >
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Daniel Brown" <majorshitbird@cox.net>
> >> To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
> >> <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:09 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Drive Recovery Software
> >>
> >>
> >> > George Toft wrote:
> >> >> May be OT :)
> >> >>
> >> >> A friend handed me a Windows drive with a book in
> >> progress and tons of
> >> >> family pics. You know the drill - it died.
> >> >>
> >> >> When I boot with Knoppix, the partition table is
> >> readable (fdisk -l) and
> >> >> I can mount the partition (/dev/sda2), but I
> >> cannot list the contents of
> >> >> the file system.
> >> >>
> >> >> I am in the process of using dd with the noerror
> >> option to try to copy
> >> >> all the intact data off the disk. Not sure this
> >> will get me anywhere.
> >> >>
> >> >> What data recovery tools are available?
> >> Linux-based preferred, but will
> >> >> do Windows.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > I would give chkdsk /r a shot with Win XP. It
> >> might fix your file system
> >> > problem.
> >> >
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