deleyt Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 One partition of my hardrive crashed and has become unreadable. Does anyone know reliable software to get most of my data off the drive. Most of my 3D work and mod-stuff is on it and it would be a shame to lose it. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutlink Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Ouch. Are you looking for a freebie or retail product? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHaired Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 "GetDataBack" http://www.runtime.org/ no freeware and time consuming but efficient from own experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 If freeware does the job then that's ok. But if retail is better, I'll get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowmanUK Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Check your pm's mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I recovered 2 lost partitons with a product I bought, so long as you do not attempt to write anything to those partions you should get everything back okay. I have a licenced version of Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows 5.0 from here. But the tool I actually used was from Bill at Bootmaster. If you are looking for one on one e-mail support that will run diagnostics and give you undivided personal attention, bootmaster is the way to go. If you need either of those let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Davido Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I used one called Phoneix that was really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share Posted December 23, 2006 Thanks guys. I'll check out all of them links. I haven't saved anything on the partition after the crash...simply couldn't if I wanted to. My system now tells me that that partition isn't formated, so it's probably the bootsector that's wiped out, rather then the entire disk. Fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 My system now tells me that that partition isn't formated, so it's probably the bootsector that's wiped out, rather then the entire disk. Fingers crossed. That's what happened to me, try the free diagnostic at bootsector first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonMiguel Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 I've had good success with both winternals and Rdisk, however both are higher dollar stuff. Not sure if they have a "home" version or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 24, 2006 Author Share Posted December 24, 2006 I've heard some good stuff about Winternals aswell. I haven't checked their prices though. Will take that one into conscideration aswell. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCO*AFZ* Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I've heard some good stuff about Winternals aswell. I haven't checked their prices though. Will take that one into conscideration aswell. Thanks! Have you tried a chkdsk and from the recovery console fixmbr or fixboot? When it crashed... is the platters clicking and clanking? . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonMiguel Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 chkdsk /r can often resolve errors. unless its your boot drive, I don't see much need for the fixmbr/fixboot options though (and unless you are experienced, I wouldn't recommend using recovery console options, less you cause even more problems.) be careful using chkdsk (and other find/fix utilities) as they can write back to the partition overwriting data that you are trying to recover and just causing you headaches. just curious, is this partition a logical partition? are there other partitions on the same physical disk? knowing those might help in determining what the root problem is and a method of recovery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 chkdsk /r can often resolve errors. unless its your boot drive, I don't see much need for the fixmbr/fixboot options though (and unless you are experienced, I wouldn't recommend using recovery console options, less you cause even more problems.) be careful using chkdsk (and other find/fix utilities) as they can write back to the partition overwriting data that you are trying to recover and just causing you headaches. just curious, is this partition a logical partition? are there other partitions on the same physical disk? knowing those might help in determining what the root problem is and a method of recovery Yes. It's a fixed disk with 2 partitions. A primary DOS partition (C:) and an extended DOS partition being logical (D:) No other partitions besides those two on the physical disk. C: is working fine (at least as far as I can tell as it's properly botting). D: isn't reckognized as being formatted, so my assumption is, is that it's a boot-sector thingy. I'm not really keen on using the chkdsk-feature. I think it might be a bit too aggresive to my likings and I really don't want to make a mistake I'll later regret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonMiguel Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 chkdsk /f is a filesystem repair vs the more aggresive /r that also scans for physical errors and repairs (sorta) them. I use it almost daily with customers who have problems. Quite often it will recover things enough to allow windows to boot (on boot paritions) or allow access long enough to copy data or image the partition with something like Acronis or Ghost. Either way, at this point it sounds like you're more likely to fix the thing then make it worse at this point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 You could try a bootable Linux CD like Knoppix. I don't know if it would be able to mount the drive or not though if it's really mashed... Eh, it's a free download though. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 30, 2006 Author Share Posted December 30, 2006 (edited) Thanks for the help guys. I was able to recover all the files I needed. There were some files that got lost in the process but those were not of any importance to me. I can breathe again EDIT: Damn!...I did lose some stuff I was hoping to recover: my GRAW project, Tank Revisited seems to be in shambles I was looking forward to picking this project up again next week since I'm still off work, but I think it has been lost forever now Edited December 30, 2006 by deleyt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Which recovery method did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 30, 2006 Author Share Posted December 30, 2006 I used GetDataBack (NTFS) from Runtime Software. I'm trying to format the old disk now but it's crashing my system everytime during formatting. So I guess this harddisk is ready for the bin. Second time in two years that I've bought a Maxtor harddisk and crashes on me. I'm really ###### off now, that I've not just lost my GRAW project but also a complete harddrive, only several months old. No more Maxtor's for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I don't know what's up with HDs these days, I had to return one under warranty recently too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I recently got a "corrupt Master file" table on my external Maxtor OneTouch 300 GB. I could also save the data with GetDataBack for NTFS, then reformated the drive.... Maxtor hmmm....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowmanUK Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Check on the maxtor site whether its still in the warranty period D, you might be able to get a replacement out of them. As of December 9th, 2006 warranty services for all Maxtor products are now fully supported through Seagate’s warranty services. To obtain warranty support for your product please proceed to the Seagate Warranty Support page for assistance. http://www.seagate.com/support/service/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleyt Posted December 30, 2006 Author Share Posted December 30, 2006 Thanks! I'll check that out although I wonder if it's worth all the hasttle. I bought my system in the US through Newegg and sending it back and forth might actually be more expensive than just buying a new one...Seagate this time. Never had a problem with Seagate before. It's true about the quality of harddisks these days though. Seems like the race for bigger volumes is at the expense of reliability. It's my own fault though....I always seem to postpone on making backups....till it's too late... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 Thanks! I'll check that out although I wonder if it's worth all the hasttle. It's worth it D, honest. Skip Newegg and go to the Maxtor site, get an RMA (best if you can confirm with an error message from the drive or even if you can say you hear it clicking). When I did it I had a SMART error code I could quote, which helps. If you don't have an error code and nothing is recorded in windows error event viewer, try the Maxtor Diagnostic tool. They sent out a new one once they had the old one back, so even though they are cheap now, I have a brand new 80Gb HD sitting either as a spare, or for a new system build somewhere down the line. Go for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Sheesh, I just had a 200GB Maxtor HD I bought over a year ago konk out on me. It was my slave drive, and I thought my 4 year old 60GB drive would be the culprit, but it was the more recent drive. Good thing I had things backed up. SMART was even enabled in the BIOS but failed to detect any probs. I have been buying Western Digital HDs for the last year since I was happy with my Raptors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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