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| 1238437 | 2011-10-19 00:41:00 | I friends Toshiba laptop has taken a fall off the table. I have pulled the HDD and connected to my laptop via externial enclosure comes up drive not formatted. The question, is any file recovery software worth downloading to recover work files? No cost would be great but will spend some if needed but not worth spending more than $100 TIA Wayne |
WayneMiddy (14028) | ||
| 1238438 | 2011-10-19 00:48:00 | One I use is www.runtime.org -- Not free, but the trial is, so you can install it, run a scan and if it finds the things you are after you have to pay for the license to unlock it and do the recovery. There are a few about that are free, one is www.piriform.com -- sometimes it works other times it doesn't. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1238439 | 2011-10-19 01:22:00 | One I use is www.runtime.org -- Not free, but the trial is, so you can install it, run a scan and if it finds the things you are after you have to pay for the license to unlock it and do the recovery. +1 for this. Have recovered a ton of stuff in the past with it. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1238440 | 2011-10-19 01:41:00 | If the drive cannot be read after falling off the table then any damage is likely to be physical (say, damaged heads) and no amount of data recovery software is going to help. Also, if it's a hardware problem, and it's marginal, data recovery software may just kill the drive off. If it's a risk you're willing to take then go for it, otherwise if the data is too important take it to a recovery specialist instead. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1238441 | 2011-10-19 02:39:00 | Thanks guys downloaded runtime software as suggest above 144000 files in 29000 directories with a lot greyed out as Agent 24 stated damaged to HDD, think i will flag it. Cheers Wayne |
WayneMiddy (14028) | ||
| 1238442 | 2011-10-19 02:42:00 | Of course it will be greyed out if it's the free\demo version. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1238443 | 2011-10-19 04:30:00 | Only some files and folders greyed out some i can open and save just dont fancy doing that to 1000's of them. The only thing you cant do is copy because its the trial verson. | WayneMiddy (14028) | ||
| 1238444 | 2011-10-19 04:35:00 | The paid version can surely recover all of them automatically without you having to do it for each one. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1238445 | 2011-10-19 04:49:00 | The paid version has no limitations at all, you can recover the whole drive worth of folders, or just the folders / file you want. It wont let you recover in the trial, as its just that, a trial to let you see if it can recover / do what you want before paying for it. Sometimes the folders wont be called by their original names, there may be a LOT of folders all numbered, and you have to work through them to find the data you want. The only limitations you have is making sure the location you are recovering to (USB drive or working Hard Drive on the machine) has enough space to put the recovered files. Once I did a recovery it was approx 1TB of data -- no spare drives big enough :( |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1238446 | 2011-10-19 05:06:00 | I have noticed with these sorts of programs often the recovered size is more than the real size as it recovers multiple copies of the same file, different versions (different times) - also some are corrupt while others not... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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