JHAres Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Originally posted by Wilbert66 Anita, you could try this FREEWARE proggie called Drive Rescue (Version 1.9d) http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html I have used successfully Christian Grau?s another program called Digital Image Recovery, and it seems to do some miracles with Flash Medias that have been messed up... You can anyway give this tool a try, it does not write anything to the drive, only tries to read. Good Luck ! > Going to take a look too... just in case...:DD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 btw partitioning ur HD in 10 partitions wont save it if there's a problem, usually it will be the whole thing that will go down (including ALL your partitions...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted July 6, 2002 Author Share Posted July 6, 2002 Hi all, Drive Rescue seems to doing ok - it's finding the logical drives and is not quite half done. :D:D:D:D:D:D anita, typing with crossed fingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted July 7, 2002 Author Share Posted July 7, 2002 I dunno. Saturday, after 9hrs of recovering stuff, Drive Rescue finally showed everything that was on HD2. I was happy!!!!! I'd managed to get a few things saved to another drive when the whole system locked up. Dead. I tried ctrl-alt-del but even it wouldn't come up. So I rebooted and got back into Drive Rescue and there was NOTHING shown to be recovered. Does this mean one can't reboot during the recovery process even when the machine is locked up? It doesn't say that in any of the documentation. So I started the recovery again. I went to bed around 3 and when I got up a little but ago to check it, Drive Rescue SEEMED to have completed the recovery but when I looked there was NOTHING showing. I also hooked my 30gb drive up and it has a HECK of a lot of the files potentially lost so I'm not in that bad of shape, except that while TRYING to xfer my 98 emails to XP somehow all the mail started going to the slave drive. I followed the instructions and never did recover my old mail after switching to XP. THAT is a different matter. I have to at least recover the XP email now. Looks like PowerQuest now. *sigh* anita, frustrated but still hopeful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAres Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Nice to see you recovered some of your stuff... at least... :) Keep trying and posting your experiences and discoverings... we never know when we need to walk the same road... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedr0 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 So I started the recovery again. I went to bed around 3 and when I got up a little but ago to check it, Drive Rescue SEEMED to have completed the recovery but when I looked there was NOTHING showing. Use Ontrack's Easy Recovery Professional 6, you can find it on some *cough*evaluation*cough* sites... :p It's much faster than the other applications and works quite better (I tested it with both L&F and Final Data) than the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted July 8, 2002 Author Share Posted July 8, 2002 Originally posted by JHAres Nice to see you recovered some of your stuff... at least... :) Keep trying and posting your experiences and discoverings... we never know when we need to walk the same road... :D Thanks, JHAres. I think part of what I wrote that last time was me venting some anger and frustration. Fedr0...I started Easy Recovery this morning about 2am and it was half through the drive when I checked at 7am before going to work. Hated leaving the beastie on all day, though. Shaun (our computer god here at work) gave me a Partition Magic 7 to try tonight if needed. He also thinks that I COULD recover the email. I can't wait to get home to see what's going on!!!!!!! thanks!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D anita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 After a week of trying everything and every piece of software I could think of, recovery of any stuff on my 80gb slave drive has failed. As of now, it doesn't register at all so I'm going to reformat the beastie. Thank you to everyone who offered their suggestions - the help was needed and appreciated. :disappoin anita, who hates the idea of being beaten by anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iconman Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 :disappoin Good Luck Formatting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAres Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 You hasn't failed... the HD failed... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azazel- Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 One of the many reasons why I regularly back up important data to cd. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intrabyte Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 western digital... god I hate them! I've had a 8gb WD... bad sectors (physical)... sended it to the manifacture... 2 weeks later another 8gb... 2 days later again bad sectors... sended AGAIN! 3 weeks then... 8gb again... few days later AGAIN!!! I said "fuk this, I'l go with maxtor" since I got maxtor hd's.... never had ANY problems... maybe it was my bad luck (for 3 times).. oh well... WD for me... no thx. btw wow bad luck bigtime man, I'm guessing though it was a hardware problem there. ntfs, fat32, aftger that problem I don't see how u could recover by goin back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sailgreg Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 I have never killed a hard drive in my life and I have used a bunch of them. I leave my computers on all the time and work the hard drives hard :) I Mostly have IBM and WD hard drives btw :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
condorstats Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 I only ever had 1 HD fail. A 5yr old 1 gig thing. I worked it hard :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xe|oN Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Hmmm i've killed a 60GB WD hdd and a 500MB Conner hdd. I blew the motors in both of them, altho i suspect the 500MB one went because of age... hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usr.bin Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 I have a hard drive that is slowly dying. It's going though the final stages right now (click click clicking). Even though it's dying and almost dead, and probably won't last past another reboot (computers been on steadly for the past week and a half) I live securely in the fact of knowing that all my data is backed up onto a CD and I only have 2 partitions, 1 for windows, 1 for data so if I want to reinstall windows, I can do it on the fly. So sorry to hear about your misfortunte anita. But we make mistakes to learn from them. :old: --dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dacbo Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 i broke my fujitsu hd completely but it was still under guarantee so i sent it back and got a nice new replacement :p :p :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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