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Disk Recovery Software. Any recommendations?

05-23-2004, 02:45 AM

For an external Maxtor fire-wire drive. Caught a virus and lost 40-50 sets of my content. I know the data is still on the drive, it shows 14.5GB of 60 is being used, but in Explorer I only see numbered files that are wierd looking icons, about 25 of them. When I click on them I get the choose program dialogue.

Anyone know of some utilities I could try?

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05-23-2004, 03:02 AM

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05-23-2004, 03:06 AM

Originally posted by Project-Shadow
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Agreed, I was just about to mention it

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05-23-2004, 03:08 AM

If the data is really valuable, I would probalby buy another drive, clone it, and then try to recover that one....

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05-23-2004, 03:17 AM

Originally posted by Project-Shadow
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Looking into this now, thanks!
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05-23-2004, 03:22 AM

Originally posted by ArikaAmes
Looking into this now, thanks!

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05-23-2004, 03:24 AM

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If the data is really valuable, I would probalby buy another drive, clone it, and then try to recover that one....

So am I gonna need cloning software too?
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05-23-2004, 03:29 AM

Originally posted by woj
If the data is really valuable, I would probalby buy another drive, clone it, and then try to recover that one....

Good advice.

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05-23-2004, 07:21 AM

I seem to remember someone else having the same problems a couple of months back, maxtor drive as well, i think it might have been New Breed. Unfortunately the search is not working so can't check on that as to whether it was resolved or not.

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05-23-2004, 07:27 AM

GetDataBack did wonders for me when I lost my drive. Recovered 97% of everything.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

It's not overly pricey, either. Good luck girl

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05-23-2004, 07:32 AM

Originally posted by Newton - XXXAmigoz
I seem to remember someone else having the same problems a couple of months back, maxtor drive as well, i think it might have been New Breed. Unfortunately the search is not working so can't check on that as to whether it was resolved or not.

It was him, I'm tired of waiting for his too busy to fix stuff ass to get this thing recovered. Taking a lot of matters into my own hands now! Plus, my content is needed more than ever and it was on that drive.
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05-23-2004, 07:33 AM

Originally posted by LadyMischief
GetDataBack did wonders for me when I lost my drive. Recovered 97% of everything.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

It's not overly pricey, either. Good luck girl

Looking now, thanks again!!!
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05-23-2004, 07:41 AM

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So am I gonna need cloning software too?

Here you can use Norton Ghost, let it make a backup when you go to bed
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05-23-2004, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by LadyMischief
GetDataBack did wonders for me when I lost my drive. Recovered 97% of everything.

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

It's not overly pricey, either. Good luck girl

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05-23-2004, 08:10 AM

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Yep it's saved me too!

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05-23-2004, 08:13 AM

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Getdataback is great, it have saved my life twice

Cool, trying everything I can find!!!
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05-23-2004, 08:35 AM

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Yes, this is a Good one.. I have hear good comments about this recover

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05-23-2004, 09:00 AM

Steve Gibsons program Spinrite has helped me on several occasions, but more far hard drive damage and I haven't tried
it with an external firewire drive.

It has recovered stuff when nothing else could.

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Once you get by this though , you need a good backup program to save your stuff so this doesn't happen again. I would suggest Acronis True Image which can be setup to image your entire drive to DVD.

Good luck....!
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05-23-2004, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by ArikaAmes
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck....... $1500.00?????

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If the data is worth retrieving, that is probably pretty cheap . . . you ever look into sending a drive to one of those companies that does that stuff?

Not cheap.
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05-23-2004, 09:04 AM

Originally posted by ronbotx
Steve Gibsons program Spinrite has helped me on several occasions, but more far hard drive damage and I haven't tried
it with an external firewire drive.

It has recovered stuff when nothing else could.

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Once you get by this though , you need a good backup program to save your stuff so this doesn't happen again. I would suggest Acronis True Image which can be setup to image your entire drive to DVD.

Good luck....!

Will check this out as well. I have bookmarked all of these and when Bill gets home I'll have him try them all. I read up on them and all of them look like they will work, I just don't want to break anything worse because I have NO experiance with any of this stuff.

Ironically, the FW drive was our backup, we were in the process of changing computers when we discovered the drive failure and by that time the files had been erased from the old hard drive...
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05-23-2004, 09:42 AM

Try this: http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/

Best $70 I ever spent. It isn't instant download, but once you get it, it works. It saved my drive from catastrophic failure and brought it back to 100% functionality. (I know, I sound like an infomercial, but it's true, LOL!)
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