DataRecovery software. Whic one realy works.

Rat · 05-05-2002, 10:36 AM

Hey every one.
I am trying to recover a crashed hard drive.
I have read many software boxes telling me they could pring my PC back from the dead. So I am asking this to every one here (in the real world) What have you used and how well did it work?
I am looking at Hard drive Mechanic but not sure about it clams.
Any help would be great
Rat

**Jason** · 05-05-2002, 10:48 AM

It will depend on how bad the hard drive is I belive. I have used spinrite successfully in the past. That is the only one I've gotten to work. It isn't a quick process though. I belive a 1 gig hd took me about 36 hours to fix and get data off.

**JAMMAN** · 05-05-2002, 11:05 AM

My hard drive crashes have been from file allocation table or boot sector corruption. Though I have never used a software for recovery I have always (but one time) been able to recover most of my critical stuff by putting the "crashed" hard drive as a slave to a working system and copy files. The one I couldn't fix was a quantum 5 1/4 (bigfoot) that had a fried bearing. Oil had leaked out the top and it even smelled really bad.

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Rat Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 6 OS:	DataRecovery software. Whic one realy works. Hey every one. I am trying to recover a crashed hard drive. I have read many software boxes telling me they could pring my PC back from the dead. So I am asking this to every one here (in the real world) What have you used and how well did it work? I am looking at Hard drive Mechanic but not sure about it clams. Any help would be great Rat

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Jason Shot the jukebox Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 6,824 OS: Windows XP My System Blog Entries: 2	It will depend on how bad the hard drive is I belive. I have used spinrite successfully in the past. That is the only one I've gotten to work. It isn't a quick process though. I belive a 1 gig hd took me about 36 hours to fix and get data off. __________________ Posting Tips \| Advice for New People \| Common Fixes \|

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JAMMAN TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Middle Ohio Posts: 841 OS: all	My hard drive crashes have been from file allocation table or boot sector corruption. Though I have never used a software for recovery I have always (but one time) been able to recover most of my critical stuff by putting the "crashed" hard drive as a slave to a working system and copy files. The one I couldn't fix was a quantum 5 1/4 (bigfoot) that had a fried bearing. Oil had leaked out the top and it even smelled really bad. __________________ The Cat Dragged Inn