Getting data off of bad hard drives
 

Have some old hard drives I am trying to get data off of. When I insert one of them into my external hard drive enclosure, the drive letter shows up, but it says the disk is not formatted, asks if I want to format.

Trying a program called "partition find and mount" right now, scanning to see if it can recover lost partition.

Any other programs you would suggest, or good methods you have used in the past to recover data off bad drives?

If the have gone bad, your chances are 0.001% - I've had two HD failures this year and read a lot on the subject, unless you want to shell out some $$$ and send them out to a data recovery compeny, you might as well give up right now

OK, that's what I was thinking. Thankfully these aren't my drives anyway. Someone gave 3 external USB hard drive enclosures to me to see if I could get any data off them. One of them was fine once I took the drive out, but the other two are screwed. I just thought I'd see if there were any other really good options available out there to try.

I haven't had a drive fail on me in so long it's almost scary. I've even had drives survive a lightning hit that destroyed the computer they were in. (Knocks on wood)

There are softwares out there that are pretty good at this. It usually takes them a while, but they work. I cant think of the names off hand. I know other people on here are familiar.I will ask some people I know and try to get back to this thread. But it is very possible.

in the meantime, i would check out some of these.

http://www.cnet.com/topic-software/d...ard-drive.html

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http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/200...over-data.html

Drive Genius? ...If your on a mac, if not, then it makes sense :P http://download.cnet.com/Drive-Geniu...2_4-55178.html

These drives are still physically working, it's just the data appears to be gone.