Data Recovery

[Bonezmann]

Hi, I built up a new Pc for some people since their Motherboard broke. The problem is that I can't seem to recover any data from their old HDD, when I slave it on any other Pc it says the drive is not formatted, and asks to format it. I've tried Exploring,opening,searching, basically any exploration method I can think of and it still doesn't want to access the HDD.

Anybody know of any kind of software/way I can recover the data with?

Thanx in advance :)

[CaViE]

Uhm, I don't know.. I've done this before.. But don't remember how.. :)

You could try Hiren's BootCD

Or, better yet, Spinrite 6..

Google for it..

[Cloud_Ratha]

Maybe try tuneup utilities undelete. That seems to work the best for me.

[hawk]

You could stick an Ubuntu Live CD into your drive and try explore it using that...

[CaViE]

Linux whore.. :D

[hawk]

:D

Its just a suggestion....its worked for me before.

[Bonezmann]

Uhm, I don't know.. I've done this before.. But don't remember how.. :)

You could try Hiren's BootCD

Or, better yet, Spinrite 6..

Google for it..

Believe me, I have.

[Bazo]

Buy a new HDD and run the back-ups...they made back-ups right?

(thats what I had to do this week)

[Bonezmann]

No, they didn't get to make backups because of the sudden Motherboard failure

[N3G4T1v3]

Dam i hate motherboard failure.

I would have to agree with hawk here and say try a live linux cd.

[Bonezmann]

Link to where i can get one please? :)

[hawk]

You can get it here - that is a download location/or they can mail the CD to you.

[Darkmag]

Try

restoration
http://snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

or PCI file recovery
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file...htm?language=1

Ive used both and Restoration is by far simpler to use, but PCI file recovery has more features and and better GUI.

[Bonezmann]

Thanx, I'll check it out :)

[Pietersielie]

Try Search and Recover I use that I think it's free(not sure I got it from PC Format)