Data Recovery Software

[Disco Dan]

Data Recovery Software:

Any suggestions?

I was clever enough to delete my back-up on my 200GB external drive the other day and lost a lot of information.

Im currently scanning the drive with 'stellar phoenix 2.1' - which I have used in the past on customer computers.

Does anyone know of any better software for scanning and recovering deleted data on hard drives?

(if anyone wants a copy of this program PM me, also have crack to make it full version - PC)

[Delphinus]

I've had success with GetDataBack.

Make sure you do NOT write anything to the drive untill you get a chance to recover your files.

[terbang]

Call Bryan Hopwood on 021955736. If he can't recover it then its lost. Out west Auckland way too...

[bell]

Have had a bit of success with Search and Recover (vers 4). Sorry, can't compare it to Stellar Phoenix. Best of luck!

[Smokin]

I tried a few of them with very little success, One program I used recovered most of my pics but nearly all of them were shagged.
Then I came across IRecover, What an awesome piece of software, Recovered an almost full 120 gig drive and I only lost two movies out of it, All my digital pics were fully recovered and at the end of the day the pics were all I was really worried about , the rest was just a bonus.

If you want to PM your email address I can send you a copy of it if you like?

[Lil_Byte]

Wininternals file restore is a great product but I only have it in the administrators pack which costs a bloody fortune.

Not sure what the cost of it now is as Microsoft have aquired wininternals

[BuFfY]

Heh so you loose data aswell as your self..... poor lil disco

[Pathos]

if its a backup...don't you have the original ?

[Olly]

Goto 9Down.com and download Hiren's BootCD; there are some really good recovery apps on there that will completely rebuild the partition table and file indexes. So heres hoping you wont need to recover them to a different drive.

I lost 1.8TB of data a while back on a RAID5 Setup; and amazingly it managed to bring it all back (unfortunately just to loose it again :()

:P

[avgas]

Did pirates steal ye data? I've been hearing stories about data pirates lately. :)

[Disco Dan]

Heh so you loose data aswell as your self..... poor lil disco

yeah something like that...


if its a backup...don't you have the original ?

ermm... kind of deleted my back up then re-formated computer... *got the order around the wrong way*

[scracha]

I lost 1.8TB of data a while back on a RAID5 Setup; and amazingly it managed to bring it all back (unfortunately just to loose it again :()
:P

Umm...can I ask how?

[Disco Dan]

Well after putting the drive in a windows pc and scanning it using about 3 diferent data recovery programs and many hours later... nothing. damit.

popped it back into the external drive case and re-connected back to my mac - downloaded the MAC version of stellar phoenix and bobs ya uncle! Taking forever to scan though, so fingers crossed....

I had over 12,000 songs and over 100 movies/clips stored on that thing!

[Morcs]

I have a copy of 'ghost' on cd.

I havent had to use it yet, but i know a few people who swear by it.

[Delphinus]

I have a copy of 'ghost' on cd.

I havent had to use it yet, but i know a few people who swear by it.

Its not so much a recovery tool, but its a fantastic piece of software... backups, copying data to new drives etc. I couldn't live without it.

[Edbear]

Could try a query to www.yourhomepage.co.nz Site still under construction but the query and forum and contacts are all up and running. Rudy's a bit of a whizz at this sort of problem. I had trouble with my RAID too, lost heaps but he had this special program he brought with him from Europe and got most of it back for me.

Have discontinued with the RAID setup now.

[scracha]

Its not so much a recovery tool, but its a fantastic piece of software... backups, copying data to new drives etc. I couldn't live without it.

A poor man's Acronis if you ask me :-)

[Disco Dan]

A poor man's Acronis if you ask me :-)

Yes I agree, Ghost is sufficiant for the average home user 'family computer' scenario - but is not substitute for a proper back up of the data.

I bought an external drive case from DSE for about $30 and just put any hard drive inside it! I bought a brand new 200GB WD drive and used it for backups and storage of my movies. My Mac has only a 250GB drive inside it so I needed the extra storage space for all my music and movies!

FYI - just about finished scanning my drive now... wont be long now... been scanning since about 9.30am :gob:

[Disco Dan]

OK scan finished...

but only demo version... :shutup: so wont let me backup the data! arrrgghhhh!!!

tried looking through the usual sites for a crack, but couldnt find any macintosh ones...

The program is: "Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Demo"

Can see my missing data just cant open it or use it!! arrgghhg!

I fyou can help I would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance!!