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Any recommendations for free or cheap legitimate options
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You can give this a try
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
you'll have to get a new drive with the o/s and slave the bad drive.. but you can search for files and recover.
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Lose all your porn? lol
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Best one I used was SpinRite. But it costs money. Obviously I didn't pay for it.
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Depends entirely on how dead it is.
Does it spin up? Does it click loudly? Softly?
If it won't spin up, you are f***ed. No software can help you with that. Companies that do that kind of recovery are $$$$.
If it still spins up and makes no mechanical clicking sounds or anything, have you tried simply slaving it?
I would test the drive with a hard drive testing program. I personally recommend Hitachi DFT. Can easily get it online free.
DFT will tell you whats up, and if its just a few bad sectors can regenerate them.
edit: If it spins up: http://www.active-undelete.com/download.htm
Thats a great program and you can download a demo for free which will show you if you can get your files back.
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Fires up, just doesn't appear/have files, reads as corrupted
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The_Town_Perv posted:
Fires up, just doesn't appear/have files, reads as corrupted
http://www.active-undelete.com/download.htm
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Tipztoe posted:
You can give this a try
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
you'll have to get a new drive with the o/s and slave the bad drive.. but you can search for files and recover.
Thank You!!! worked perfectly.
Thank you all for the responses.
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