NTFS recovery

[moranor@axis]

I have a hard drive that crashed and i had to format it to get it working again do any of you guys know a good NTFS recovery tool i could download?

google shows many but i dont know what to use :rollsmile:

 

[MikeR]

I have....Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro...if u pas through Edenvale I will burn a disk for you.
:thumbs: best you can get - I have used it to recover loads of drives.

 

[moranor@axis]

thanks for the offer... but im a bit far away will see if i can find it online

 

[Seether]

The more you use the drive the less chance you have of recovering anything. Formatting it was not a good option. I do data recovery and the likelihood of recovering your data now is not great. Not much free that is worth downloading.

 

[MikeR]

if you use Vuze...it will come up quick with a search
:thumbs:

Not true...even a full format you can recover, Ive also recovered of a full Hard crash....throw drive away stuff.

 

[moranor@axis]

formatting was the only option tried a few ways to get the info off before i did it :yuck: not using it just formatted and loaded something small on to see if it was working...

will not use it till i have tried to recover the info 1st

 

[calypso]

Ive used Recuva secessfully

 

[Seether]

if you use Vuze...it will come up quick with a search
:thumbs:

Not true...even a full format you can recover, Ive also recovered of a full Hard crash....throw drive away stuff.

Mike, I have been doing data recovery for 22 years. I didnt say it was impossible, but it is unlikely, especially if you don't have the right tools. But am not going to argue, if you think its untrue, so be it.

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formatting was the only option tried a few ways to get the info off before i did it :yuck: not using it just formatted and loaded something small on to see if it was working...

will not use it till i have tried to recover the info 1st

Have you loaded anything on the drive since formatting it?

 

[MikeR]

if you use Vuze...it will come up quick with a search
:thumbs:

Not true...even a full format you can recover, Ive also recoved of a full Hard crash....throw drive away stuff.

Mike, I have been doing data recovery for 22 years. I didnt say it was impossible, but it is unlikely, especially if you don't have the right tools. But am not going to argue, if you think its untrue, so be it.

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formatting was the only option tried a few ways to get the info off before i did it :yuck: not using it just formatted and loaded something small on to see if it was working...

will not use it till i have tried to recover the info 1st

Have you loaded anything on the drive since formatting it?

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done and dusted 2 drives from formats with Ontrack.
And One drive crashed so bad could hardly get it up and running, took nearly 2 weeks to recover, and managed 80% :rollsmile:
I think over the last 5/6 years Ive managed more than 10 recoveries. :=):

 

[Psymon69]

I have....Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro...if u pas through Edenvale I will burn a disk for you.
:thumbs: best you can get - I have used it to recover loads of drives.

im with mikeR here, awesome program! it has saved me many tears. even usb drives that the pc didnt even pick up was recovered. good luck!

 

[Seether]

Remember one thing, you try a recovery and you don't do it right, you ruin your chances of ever getting the data back. I have the Ontrack software along with almost every other bit of recovery software available. It will recovery in some scenarios, but this sounds like a NTFS partition that went bad before the format. Good luck with Ontrack, hope it works.

@ Moranor, how important is this data?

 

[moranor@axis]

the data is not that important, but i would like to get it back if i can only loaded a small file onto the hard drive to see if it will work because warranty is running out and i need to decide if i will return it...

 

[Nic_s]

I've also used Ontrack a few times in the passed. I've even used it on a crashed drive where the only option to get it working (After I recovered the files) was to format.

My old flash drive went completely corrupt. Windows wanted to format the drive every time I clicked on it in My Computer. Ontrack made short work of it.

You should always try and recover the data before you format and I'm sure this is obvious, but always recover to a completely different drive.

moranor: You have PM.

 

[moranor@axis]

Nic thats pretty much what happened to this drive... even had it at a PC after i fiddled with a few ways to try get some info off shop they looked at it and said i should just return it...

 

[Nic_s]

Nic thats pretty much what happened to this drive... even had it at a PC after i fiddled with a few ways to try get some info off shop they looked at it and said i should just return it...

I had that a few times, although never with one of my own drives. Usually a friend's HDD. For the most part the drives themselves are fine, it's just the file system that gave in. We would recover what we can and then just format after which the drive is 100% again.

I should just point out that most of these crashes were on Maxtor and Samsung drives. My old 160Gb Western Digital is now almost 6 years old and has never crashed.