data recovery software

puhbare · Post by **puhbare** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 9:13 pm

One of my drives, which contain loads of data, have become... missing. Whenever I click on it, XP asks me if I want to format. If I look it up under partition magic, it says that it's unallocated space. I don't want to format nor create another partition until I retrieve the data. Does anyone know a good program to do such a thing? I have a copy of a software (name I forgot), but unfortunately, it's in the drive with the problem

thanks in advance

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 11:50 pm

You could try Drive Rescue.....are your drives in NTFS or Fat32?

Here's a link...

http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/8 ... l#download

puhbare · Post by **puhbare** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 7:45 am

thanks for the link. i will give it a try.

--fat32.

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Wed Jan 01, 2003 8:46 am

I've used the program GetDataBack with perfect succcess before. It's not freeware, though...

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

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:23 pm

I've used Ontrack Easy Recovery Professional 6.0 on several screwed NTFS drives as well as RAID drives that were hosed. It has several different types of recoveries including one that attempts a raw data recovery no matter what file system, or you can even format an entire drive full of data and then still go back and retrieve the data AFTER the format.. NTFS, FAT32, Linux, whatever..