hard drive repair utility

RichR wrote on 4/22/2006, 7:03 AM

i'm getting an error message that one of my hard drives needs to be formatted. it has data on it and i'd like to recover that data. any recommended software for this? thanks

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DJPadre wrote on 4/22/2006, 7:09 AM

IS the HDD corrput, or is it windows telling u the file system is screwy??

is it internal, external (SB or 1394)

ther are many variables. msot of teh tie, with windows, its teh MBR which is teh first to be corrupted...

as for data retrieval, "Getdataback for NTFS" is the best program ive come across. For large media files its the shixznit and im yet to find an app which is better...

Ive lost quite afew drives' MBR as windows nukes them coz its not very good with 1394, and this program has saved me copious amounts of time

RichR wrote on 4/22/2006, 7:31 AM

this was an internal drive. i took it out of the computer after i got the error message. it is now external 1394.

DelCallo wrote on 4/22/2006, 8:05 AM

Could you access the drive when it was installed internally? Can you access it now? Do you have more than one external drive enclosure?

Sometimes, moving the drive to another enclosure works.

If not, and the drive still spins, you could use a utility like "getdatabacknow" available for download on the net to retreive your files, copy them to a new drive, and then you can go ahead and reformat the offending drive.

Sometimes, if power is interrupted during read/write, a drive can become inaccessible to Windows.

Good luck.

Del