Program for Hard drive recovery

[queonda]

Hello all,

I found a folder on my external drive which was empty. I don't know how it disappeard! There was lots of stuff in that folder.
I do have a Acronis drive backup before this happened but want to recover it using software for experience.

Does someone know free programs, either bootup disk style or runs on XP that works?

This disk is just has data, most programs I found are boot fixers. I found a Linux one, which found the missing data but didn't know how to recover.

I have not wrote to the disk, so I'm very comfortable that the data is still there. Still don't know, how it disappeared. Maybe when i powered off, a sector was corupted. Are there any disk utilites which will check the drive and help recover data?

[Mamba]

Google on "free undelete"...you'll find a few.

[queonda]

Thanks. Gave a few a try and Restoration by Snapfish found the most files, however not in the folder I was looking for. The other files it found I deleted manually. The folder in question, I have no idea how the files disappeared. Maybe I'm need a disk utility instead to find bad/corupt sectors. My file structure is NTFS. I have Acronis and genie but nether do disk recover, only backup recovery (i think).

[dglang]

Do a Google search for 'handy recovery'. I've used it a few times and it works very well.

[merrypig]

A strong coffee, a few choice words and 'format' recovers my disks every time

[queonda]

What happend!!!! I formated but everything disappeared.

[queonda]

dglang, I'll give that a try to see if it works. Thanks.

[DonK]

Handy Recovery is a great tool, I've used it plenty of times myself to recover deleted files.

[Bilar Crais]

Originally Posted by merrypig

A strong coffee, a few choice words and 'format' recovers my disks every time

I used to do phone support for the bovine type computer company.

It used to be kind of a standing joke among the techs: No matter the call or problem, "format C:"

[kathe]

I recommend EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard. Use "Deleted Recovery" or "Advanced Recovery" function to search your files. You can try demo first.

[crush157]

And another tool (Free) based on linux (the only way to fix windows systems!)

http://trinityhome.org/trk1.1/

[ccarlin]

I just had my entire drive dissappear from windows (2 days after I ordered a replacement drive). I am still not convinced it was the drive (possibly the controller on the mb). I got back around 85% of the shows I had lost, interestingly enough the newer the recording the less likely it was to retrieve. Wierd? I have all the shows I recovered backed up until the new drives comes. Of course most of the shows I manually cut out the commercials and now snapstream doesn't recognize the show details anymore. Since they are wmv apparently if you try to edit the info it has to make a copy of the entire file meaning I can fix one around every 3 minutes or so, not fun when you have a few hundred.

[Bigbird999]

The absolute, no BS, best way to recover data from a crashed hard drive crash is Spinrite http://www.grc.com/ but it isn't free. It is also an HD maintenance tool. First heard about it on Leo Laporte's "Call for Help" and it works even better than advertised.
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[ajw]

Originally Posted by Bigbird999

The absolute, no BS, best way to recover data from a crashed hard drive crash is Spinrite http://www.grc.com/ but it isn't free. It is also an HD maintenance tool. First heard about it on Leo Laporte's "Call for Help" and it works even better than advertised.
BB

Absolutely! I've used Spinrite since it was first out (late 70's? - the original version is in the basement somewhere...) It has recovered drives that wouldn't boot, drives with flaky bad sectors, and drives with just general weirdness. Spinrite's worth its weight in chocolate. Two thumbs up most definitely!

- Al -

[DonK]

Easy Recovery Pro and Spinrite are probably the best of the best, IMHO. But neither are free. Easy Recovery Pro is my favorite.