Edited by viccy, 25 June 2004 - 01:53 PM.
Recovering Data from damaged hard drive
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viccy
, Jun 25 2004 01:53 PM
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viccy
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Posted 25 June 2004 - 01:53 PM
I have a hard drive that evidently has bad sectors. It first gave me an error message that the registry was corrupt. I tried to run scanreg and it failed. I ran fdisk and rebooted and was going to format as directed--it would only go to 4% and then hang. I have some data on the D drive that I would like to try to recover. Does Partition Magic have the capabilities of doing that or is there some other software that anyone would recommend?
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Posted 28 June 2004 - 08:21 PM
hello
you can try slaveing it to anther computer and remove data from there. you may want to check out diskinvestagator its free. i have used it fo find and recover data.
you can try slaveing it to anther computer and remove data from there. you may want to check out diskinvestagator its free. i have used it fo find and recover data.
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 11:18 AM
It was my understanding that using the DOS Fdisk utility deletes any existing data. Thats why you have to format the disk afterwards. Also, the fact that you could only format 4% of the disk before the procedure failed would, I suspect, indicate that any data that was on the disk was not recoverable.
Another alternative, would be to boot from a floppy and try using recovery software from a cd or floppy to see whether the disk can be read at all.
PartitionMagic does allow you to re-partition without losing data, but, sadly, Fdisk does not.
Its seems Fdisk uses the 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' approach.
Another alternative, would be to boot from a floppy and try using recovery software from a cd or floppy to see whether the disk can be read at all.
PartitionMagic does allow you to re-partition without losing data, but, sadly, Fdisk does not.
Its seems Fdisk uses the 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' approach.
Edited by Freebird, 29 June 2004 - 11:24 AM.
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