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manhattanprjkt83

manhattanprjkt83

Rusty Trombone
Jul 10, 2003
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Nilbog
Ok this is a total geek request for help...

I know there is a bunch of pretty tech savvy guys on here so i have a question about hard drive recovery. About 5 years ago i had a Maxtor external crash on me and i lost a ton of pictures and crap that i would love to have back. I learned my lesson way back and set up redundant Lacie drives that back each other up.

I am about to transfer my empire from PC to Mac and before doing so i want to ask the question if anyone knows any recovery programs/tactics that i can use to grab the data. No idea if i did a format on this drive, but i have heard stories that data is still around regardless of format.

What is the story with that? Is there anything out there that can help me restore? Thanks in advance.

_Bill
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
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depends on how it crashed. there are companies that will do last resort data recovery, in which they open the hard drive casing in the proper environment and attempt to recover whatever data they can from the platters. this costs a couple grand though...
 
eaterofdog

eaterofdog

ass grabber
Sep 8, 2006
8,308
1,555
Central Florida
If the drive is still working, you could download one of the photo recovery programs intended for memory cards. Most will work on a hard drive. Look for "photo recovery memory card" or similar in thegoogle and you will find lots of free and pay options.

I think the important thing to check is that the utility does not write to the drive. So if it does not work, you can try another.

Whether this will work depends if you just had directory corruption (should work) or a physical hard drive problem (buh bye.)
 
strangeland2

strangeland2

Monkey
Jul 11, 2007
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0
masshole
Not to high jack but its sort of along the same lines.

I pulled my old hard drive out of an old comp and was trying to transfer everything to the new comp. Apparently I had my profile password protected but when I hook up the old hard drive there is no option to enter a password. It just keeps telling me im not authorized or some mess.

Will those file scavanger programs work or is there a way to over ride my passwords? I do know the passwords I just dont know how to enter them.
 
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viper2pt0

Chimp
Mar 22, 2005
37
0
Somers, NY
Not to high jack but its sort of along the same lines.

I pulled my old hard drive out of an old comp and was trying to transfer everything to the new comp. Apparently I had my profile password protected but when I hook up the old hard drive there is no option to enter a password. It just keeps telling me im not authorized or some mess.

Will those file scavanger programs work or is there a way to over ride my passwords? I do know the passwords I just dont know how to enter them.
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You just need to take ownership of the drive in your new computer.
To Do This (assuming your on windows xp):
1) Control panel, Folder Options
2) View Tab, Scroll all the way to the bottom, uncheck "Simple File Sharing". This will give you advanced security settings.
3) Right click the drive in My computer, go to properties, security
4) Click on the advanced button down at the bottom, then the ownership tab
5) Make yourself the owner. This will give you access to all the files. (Will take a while to change the ownership on everything)
 
SK6

SK6

Turbo Monkey
Jul 10, 2001
7,586
0
Shut up and ride...
binary visions said:
You can try File Scavenger:

http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

GetDataBack is another option (I think narlus has used this):

http://www.runtime.org/

Frankly, I'd just try several demos of file recovery programs. Most of the demos won't fully recover your data, but they'll let you see if it's recoverable. If it is, you can decide if paying for the program is worth it.
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File Scavenger has been highly successful for this type of recovery. I accidentally formated an external drive, and had NO problems recovering the data I was after.

Luckily now, I have access to eNcase, and that gets EVERYTHING back.....and I do mean everything....
 
stosh

stosh

Darth Bailer
Jul 20, 2001
22,238
393
NY
Friggan File Scavenger says it can find 59k files on my HD. The thing costs $50 though.... ugh......

Anybody got one they want to let me borrow.
 
$tinkle

$tinkle

Expert on blowing
Feb 12, 2003
14,591
6
i have a friend's maxtor diamondmax 6l200r (IDE) that's now crapped out, but i don't think it's the controller on the enclosure. after i cracked it open, i made it a slave in my tower, & device mgr picked it up, but it won't start [Code 10].

so now i'm wondering if i need to get a new PSB & swap that out, or if i need to send it off to have the platters swapped w/ a refurbed one i can get off ebay

after watching this, i'm wondering if ppl actually believe a clean room is optional:
 
SkaredShtles

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
65,704
12,739
In a van.... down by the river
$tinkle said:
i have a friend's maxtor diamondmax 6l200r (IDE) that's now crapped out, but i don't think it's the controller on the enclosure. after i cracked it open, i made it a slave in my tower, & device mgr picked it up, but it won't start [Code 10].

so now i'm wondering if i need to get a new PSB & swap that out, or if i need to send it off to have the platters swapped w/ a refurbed one i can get off ebay

after watching this, i'm wondering if ppl actually believe a clean room is optional:
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Man - I hope he's a REALLY good friend.
 
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