Data backup and recovery help thread

sneekypeet · Jun 19, 2011

Bo$$ said:
Sneeky can you please sticky this, loads of people will benefit

I don't have an issue with it being a sticky, but let's fill up those empty sections of the OP first?

Mussels · Jun 20, 2011

sneekypeet said:
I don't have an issue with it being a sticky, but let's fill up those empty sections of the OP first?

feel free to help

my real life is getting in the way of my nerdy pursuits lately

Widjaja · Jun 21, 2011

Data recovery

Payware:-
Recover My Files $69.95USD
Has the ability to make deeper scan into HDD than Recuva.
Only issue is the data recovered can be numerous and can take forever to sift through.

Freeware:-
TestDisk by CGsecurity
This is by far the best data recovery software I have used.
There are times when a USB stick ends up saying not formatted when you know there is data on it.
Using this utility can search for partitions then rewrite the boot loader so the partitions are recognized again.
At one stage I had installed Windows 7 on to my Netbook which some how deleted a partition with 200GB of data after doing a image install.
This utility recovered the partition all in tact.

sneekypeet · Jun 21, 2011

Mussels said:
feel free to help my real life is getting in the way of my nerdy pursuits lately

Hey man, its your party...I'm just getting $5 a head at the door

I wish I knew more about all this, but as you can see it took hours and hours of my time to figure out what failed for large amounts of information retrieval for free. If not for Dave, I would have been screwed!

theeldest · Jun 22, 2011

Echelon said:
Free
Gparted
Hirens This is a complementation of pretty much every tool needed, but has a lot of data recovery tools both in the DOS and Bootable Windows section, found on most torrent sites.

I want to second the vote for Hiren's Boot CD. I've used it multiple times when the partition table suddenly disappears. One of the tools will scan the drive's sectors and find any existing (or past) partition tables and let you recover them.

dataguru · Jul 5, 2011

Free data backup

At the risk of sounding like a spammer- you should try http://cibecs.com free backup software. I used it and I've never turned back!

Jetster · Jul 8, 2011

Ok so really what are the odd of getting data in a bad sector on a failing drive?

qubit · Jul 8, 2011

Jetster said:
Ok so really what are the odd of getting data in a bad sector on a failing drive?

High enough to worry about. You should always have a minimum of one up to date copy of your data, or you'll lose it.

I currently have two copies and am planning on more.

Jetster · Jul 8, 2011

I wasn't referring to me, Personally I back up weekly all data. replace drives every 3 years

But every ounce in awhile someone wants to recover from a failing drive. I never been successful but maybe someone has

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