Data Recovery program?
@anyone,
I'm searching for a data recovery program to recover pictures (2,980 jpeg's), a few word document files and some excel spreadsheets. The hard drive is report- ing over 1,000 sectors errors and won't boot windows XP Home. I'm going to re-install everything, but need to recover the files mentioned. I'm looking for a program that's FREE, or open source or is low in cost. If I must pay, it's got to be good. :-) All suggestions welcomed. -BP |
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@Kwag,
Kwag wrote: Quote:
Windows XP is still corrupted. Windows XP repair would not work. My only hope is to re-install Windows XP. But their are files (jpegs, doc, xls, etc.) I would like to try to recover. I need a program that will run from a CD rom (a boot CD) and recover files. http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm What do you think of WinPE and BartPE to handle this problem :?: -BP |
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Then you can insert a USB memory stick, or other device, and drag your jpegs from the file manager to the flash device. Or even copy to another external USB hard drive. Or how about "The ultimate boot CD". Have you tried that :?: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ -kwag |
@Kwag,
I checked M$ Knowledge base and they recommended several solutions. The only ones that seems close to solving my problems are: 1) Ontrack EasyRecovery - expensive, but very good 2) DOS Navigator - FREE and possibly a solution :-) http://www.ritlabs.com/dn As long as the HD is available in System Setup, DOS Navigator can view files no matter what file structure, or corrupt MBR, etc. If the files are viewable DN can copy them to another partition or hard drive. I'm testing this now and will let you know if it works. My first problem is to create a bootable CD of DOS Naviagator. :-) -BP |
Hi,
Your problem may be too severe for this to work, but when I had bad sectors on my HD and XP got corrupted, I managed to recover EVERYTHING using the method in this article: http://www.digitalwebcast.com/articl....jsp?id=8658-0 I was truly amazed at how well this worked for me, maybe it can do the same for you? Hope it helps. - Icarus |
@Icarus3000,
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solution using DOS Navigator. It worked fine for recovering 2,980 jpegs. I moved these files to a secondary HD and backed this up to DVD as data. Some pic's were corrupt, about 1%, but that's better than losing everything. :-) -BP |
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