OMG! RAW file system

[WhiteD3]

One of our commissioning laptops decided to spit the dummy today, taking with it a week's critical work. The WD 500GB SATA drive now comes up (when plugged into my home desktop as a 3rd HDD) as file system RAW.

Any suggestions on how to recover files from this drive would be very much appreciated.

[incisor]

paragon data rescue 3

Windows Data Recovery Software | Prosofteng (http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc.php)

as long as there isnt physical damage it rebuilds most types of data

use it here ...

[WhiteD3]

Not a good start................their site is down.

Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Typical of my luck in these matters!



paragon data rescue 3

Windows Data Recovery Software | Prosofteng (http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc.php)

as long as there isnt physical damage it rebuilds most types of data

use it here ...

[incisor]

Not a good start................their site is down.

Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Typical of my luck in these matters!


working for me

Hard Drive Recovery Software | Data Rescue® PC 3 | Buy Now - Prosofteng (http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc_buy.php)

[WhiteD3]

I hit "buy now" and get the error.

Mind you I am one of the few people on the planet still using (apparently) IE...........

[WhiteD3]

Okay. Got Data Rescue (demo) loaded and it can see the drive. A quick scan produced nothing but a deep scan wants 37,000 hours to run. After 4 hours it did find 54MB of files, but in Demo mode it'll only scan, not recover.

Ho hum....probably easier to send the boys back out to site for a couple of days.

[VladTepes]

That's only about 4 years and 3 months.... tell it to do its thing and go for a drive....

[WhiteD3]

10 days later and we have the files. Using EaseUS demo version it took 8 days to find the files and then (after buying the key) another two to recover 41GB of files.

Seems to have worked a treat.