Drive recovery software.

[Grenage]

Does anyone have any links to drive recovery software, preferably free. I know that quite a few have been posted over the years, but I've not had any luck finding them!

Russell.

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[stduc]

I'm not aware of any free ones that do a complete job. I have had much success with getdataback from

http://www.runtime.org

though. I believe it will show you what it can recover before you have to pay to get it to recover the data though.

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[wahnula]

Restoration from Snapfiles is free and sometimes does the job:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

 

[Grenage]

Thank you for your replies, I shall take a look.

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[Ed2020]

Grenage,

Not, but worth every penny (or cent, dependent on where you're from) in my opinion:

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

It's dug me out of more holes than I'd care to admit to.

Ed Metcalfe.

Please do not feed the trolls.....

 

[Grenage]

Much obliged, Ed. I shall have a butcher's. I didn't know that spinrite had the feature of data recovery, I always thought it was merely SMART with a GUI. /blush

Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[Ed2020]

Grenage,

Spinrite will, if possible, recover the data in situ and let you know if it is necessary to copy the data to another drive (if the current one is about to fail completely).

Whilst SpinRite does make use of SMART data it has rather more to it in terms of testing drive reliability and data recovery. SMART is not exactly reliable when it comes to predicting a drive's future anyway...

Ed Metcalfe.

Please do not feed the trolls.....