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Mayor McCheese
Supporter
Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1033
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:32 pm: | 
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A friend's hard drive died. Its life is over. However, they wanted to see if I could save anything off the drive. I looked around and found the program GetDataBack for NTFS. It worked great. I hooked up their drive as a slave on my computer and was able to look at most of the ruined drive. So, I know that at least some, if not most, of the important things can be saved.
My problem is that I was using a free trial version that doesn't allow the user to copy files. You have to open each file individually and save it from within the opened program. Seeing as therte are many files to bhe saved this would take me until the middle of next year.
I would buy the program, but I really don't see the need to drop $80 on a program that I will use one time. So my question is this: Is there either another program that you would recomend for this, or is there someone out there who has this program and would be willing to share it with me?
Usually I would just steal this program, but I can't seem to find it on the net. (Of course this last line is just a joke if anyone who works for the company is reading this.) |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13165
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:37 pm: |
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I also have a friend who asked me to do the same thing.
I am looking to see if I can recover it with Linux. I will report any success I have. So far, not so good. It does recognize the drive and the first partition, which is a little 32 MB Dell partition. It can mount that partition. The rest of the disk, 28 GB, is an NTFS partition. Linux sees it but can't read it.
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Mayor McCheese
Supporter
Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1034
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:45 pm: |
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That was the problem I am having in windows. It can see the drive, but cannot access it. This is one partition 80GB.
Tom, that program worked very well. The only problem is that I won't pay $80 for it.
It was able to put together most of the directory structure. Most files were left in the directories. However, the drive is shot and there were some crazy things going on with some files, and other files couldn't be accessed. However, I would say that at least 80% of the material could be recovered with the program. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13166
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:47 pm: |
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It doesn't have to be your decision. Your friend can decide if the data is worth $80.
And maybe I'll put that idea to my friend, too.
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Mayor McCheese
Supporter
Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1035
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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I think I solved the problem.
I will send you a PM |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2230
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 1:13 pm: |
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BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/)
Boots off the CD drive and then lets you use a file Manager to copy files to a USB stick. |
Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2598
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 1:16 pm: |
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Mayor, send me your email addy |
Mayor McCheese
Supporter
Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1037
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 1:18 pm: |
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Thanks Brett, I will check that out. |
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