| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 79538 | 2007-05-23 01:06:00 | One of the best HDD utilities is free | mejobloggs (264) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 552334 | 2007-05-23 01:06:00 | www.theinquirer.net Yes, I know it's the Inquirer, but this looks good! |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 552335 | 2007-05-23 01:20:00 | Live in hope but I suspect that you actually get the trial copy of Acronis. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 552336 | 2007-05-23 05:08:00 | I've just downloaded, installed, and used the Seagate DiskWizard version on a Maxtor drive. It doesn't appear to be a trial copy. It can do full image backups but not selected files or incrementals; they are greyed out and if you attempt to select them you get a nag screen to buy Acronis home. When it comes to the restore you can do a full restore or just selected files and folders. I'd snap it up if I were you. |
AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 552337 | 2007-05-23 11:25:00 | Thanks for headsup. | linw (53) | ||
| 552338 | 2007-05-23 14:41:00 | Cripes, just posted more or less the same thing, even searched the forum before I posted. Ah well, it's a goody so can't hurt to be repeated. BTW, did you know that NAV is a steaming pile of doodoo? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 552339 | 2007-05-23 22:26:00 | BTW, did you know that NAV is a steaming pile of doodoo? What's NAV? :confused: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 552340 | 2007-05-23 22:29:00 | What's NAV? :confused: M guessing it means Norton Antivirus.. |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 552341 | 2007-05-24 05:41:00 | I have yet to see a REAL HDD utility that actually does any good. I mean one that can read a drive and work with it no matter how screwed the drive is. Speaking of which, has anyone ever heard of a process known as "resetting the initialisation sequence" on a hard drive? |
supertrouper (6665) | ||
| 552342 | 2007-05-24 06:34:00 | I have yet to see a REAL HDD utility that actually does any good. I mean one that can read a drive and work with it no matter how screwed the drive is. Speaking of which, has anyone ever heard of a process known as "resetting the initialisation sequence" on a hard drive? If the drive is really screwed then NOTHING can fix it, the data on the platters can be recovered by pros for a LOT of money if the platter is still OK (motor dies, circuit board dies) but if the read/write head hits the platters and damages them then there is really an unlikely chance that you will get any data back |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 552343 | 2007-05-25 00:25:00 | If the drive is really screwed then NOTHING can fix it, the data on the platters can be recovered by pros for a LOT of money if the platter is still OK (motor dies, circuit board dies) but if the read/write head hits the platters and damages them then there is really an unlikely chance that you will get any data back Yes I am fairly aware of that. I know there is some VERY hightech software out there however which will deal with some pretty sad drives - but I've never been able to track it down. I've seen the likes of Gibson's Spinrite (which has some dubious claims made about it) and other utilities such as "HDD-recover" et al, but so far none of the real serious tools have shown their faces. |
supertrouper (6665) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||