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557903 2007-06-10 08:41:00 A friends hard drive failed and I installed a new one for him but I was wondering if there are any free utilities that might recover the data.

I have the drive in a external bay and I can access the files, trouble is they will not copy to a different drive.

Any ideas
DeSade (984)
557904 2007-06-10 09:46:00 Can windows see the drive at all?
Can you copy any files ffrom the drive at all?
Try ghosting the old drive across onto some spare drive space.
EX-WESTY (221)
557905 2007-06-10 20:53:00 I can see the drive but nothing will copy
Acronis True Image 10 Home got this on download and will check it after work

Any other suggestions?
DeSade (984)
557906 2007-06-11 00:31:00 Try:
www.pcinspector.de
This is freeware, but I only used it once and prefer the following:

I would recommend rstudio's "data recovery" as I use it a lot http://www.r-studio.com/ (not free) but demo will show if there are files which can be recovered.

Another good option (not free): Getdataback from http://www.runtime.org/ trail versions allow some recovery.
hkeyzer (9827)
557907 2007-06-22 06:08:00 [edit: spam removed] Meealay (12394)
557908 2007-06-22 11:22:00 Get Data Back is an excellent program - one that I discovered after trying probably a dozen others.
What this program won't recover usually isn't recoverable.
supertrouper (6665)
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