Data Recovery Software

**Disco Dan** · 14th March 2007, 12:52

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** · 14th March 2007, 13:03

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** · 14th March 2007, 13:05

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

**bell** · 14th March 2007, 16:30

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

**Smokin** · 14th March 2007, 18:17

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** · 14th March 2007, 18:38

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** · 14th March 2007, 18:41

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

**Pathos** · 14th March 2007, 18:48

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

**Olly** · 14th March 2007, 18:50

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** · 14th March 2007, 18:50

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

**Disco Dan** · 14th March 2007, 22:36

Originally Posted by BuFfY

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

yeah something like that...

Originally Posted by Pathos

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** · 15th March 2007, 08:02

Originally Posted by Olly

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** · 17th March 2007, 10:36

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!