hard drive recovery tools?

I've used a product called "getdataback" before which works very well. There are versions for NTFS and FAT file systems depending on what the drive was previously. It'll allow you to scan the problem drive and recover any possible data onto the 7200rpm one you installed.

Data Recovery Software - Hard Drive Recovery - RAID Data Recovery

There is a trial version so it will tell you what it will be capable of recovering before you decide if it's worth the cash. There are also pirated versions freely kicking around the net but i'll leave that to your own moral judgement on if you'd want to go that route... :)

Just try to avoid writing anything at all to that drive in the meantime, anything you write to it has the possibility of overwriting data you want to recover and makes the whole job more difficult.

Here it is... pull the drive out of that PC - hook it up to another and try FileScavenger...
Vey simple. If this does not work - youy best bet is to head to a specialised recovery shop as connecting the drive to another machine and using file scavenger is about as good as it gets for the home grown scenario.

PS File scavenger willl run on vista but you will need to right click on teh exe and run as admin.

message me if you need help mate.

Over and out!

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Originally Posted by ariddell

I've used a product called "getdataback" before which works very well. There are versions for NTFS and FAT file systems depending on what the drive was previously. It'll allow you to scan the problem drive and recover any possible data onto the 7200rpm one you installed.

Data Recovery Software - Hard Drive Recovery - RAID Data Recovery

There is a trial version so it will tell you what it will be capable of recovering before you decide if it's worth the cash. There are also pirated versions freely kicking around the net but i'll leave that to your own moral judgement on if you'd want to go that route... :)

Just try to avoid writing anything at all to that drive in the meantime, anything you write to it has the possibility of overwriting data you want to recover and makes the whole job more difficult.

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Just thougth I should also second a riddell. This is a great APP but becareful as I've used it on a RAID recovery and though it rebuilt the data structure (folders) actual files inside were dead-gone.

File scavinger will show you before you recover if the file is good or bad!

Big up!