Data Recovery

[wreksta]

i recovered a 30gb hdd that had been formatted i managed to rescue my pictures and mp3's

[harry1]

yourself? thats because formatting doesnt get rid of the data, there are programs you can use that make it unrecoverable, or you could smash it lol

[bledd]

scavenger 3.0 is an awesome tool to do it yourself (if the drive is working at all in windows)

recovers from raid 5 arrays etc too

[MadduckUK]

I have used Stellar Phoenix FAT & NTFS - data recovery software , a gud utility which recovered almost 99% of data. If your data is more valuable then price doesn't matters, it cost only 99$.
Best thing is that it gives the user to download the demo version, to test the software, if you see the data through demo version then get the full version to save the data.

products that can do the same job are of course available for free. do NOT purchase software that uses forum trawlers to sell it.

at least it lets you get the demo version eh? then they can hold you to ransom for your money. "look what we could recover for you! now hand over the loot or you get nothing"

[yamangman]

I've gone with Disklabs data recovery. I will let everyone know how I get along with them and their charges and stuff. Ultimately you should avoid this happening by using arrays or backup

[Splash]

Disklabs ain't the cheapest but both themselves and Ontrack have pulled things out of the fire in past for me. Best of luck!

[yamangman]

Well by Monday Disklabs will have had my HDD for a month... i'm very, very unimpressed so far.

As for HEXUS' article entitled "Disklabs - the people to call in a data emergency" it's very much not the case.

[g8ina]

A mate of mine from uk.adverts.computers is known as Odie Ferrious, real name Duncan Clarke, he runs, or works for Retrodata, and has a very good rep in the NGs at least.

Google Retrodata, but IIRC its just name dot co dot uk.

hth

[yamangman]

Apparantly they can't find the parts for my (very recently) EOL'd DiamondMax 9. How the hell can they claim a 97% success rate if any EOL drive they receive they can't get the parts for? I'd imagine most data is being recovered from drives that have gone EOL.

I've got another DiamondMax 9 and am trying to see whether it's of a compatible revision. It feels as though i've done all the legwork so far.

Oh and if anyone has any spare Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80-160Gb HDD's, please let me know.

[Lexeus]

any update on this ?

[yamangman]

Well it has been to two other companies since and they have failed it for two different reasons. Pretty hacked off with the whole thing. I'd like to know how these companies can recover data from physically damaged/water-logged/fire damaged drives when they can't even extract anything from a drive in perfect physical and I have to assume perfect magnetic condition.