External Hard drive recovery

goron · 05-10-2008, 02:08 AM

My ex-HDD has crashed (and has RAW files), but the data is both viewable and recoverable in certain programs. However, most freeware programs for hard disk recovery have data transfer limits for extracting files (64kb file size).
Can anyone recommend a good freeware (or otherwise) source, for a program that will enable me to to recover 20gb or so of data?

I have tried about 6 or 7 different ones from google search, and they all seem to have data transfer limits..

Thanks in Advance

mickahcs · 05-10-2008, 03:34 AM

i recommend this

its not exactly freeware though

Kozmik · 05-10-2008, 03:37 AM

thx mick

goron · 05-12-2008, 03:16 PM

yeh thanks mate,
havn't downloaded it yet, but thats pretty much what i'm looking for

single_lonely · 06-11-2008, 09:10 PM

Does anyone know if i can install this on a external drive to recover files off the internal drive?

ive got a laptop and need to recover some family photos.
thanks

Driveby · 06-11-2008, 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by single_lonely

Does anyone know if i can install this on a external drive to recover files off the internal drive?

ive got a laptop and need to recover some family photos.
thanks

That would be a no. Best thing to do is take out internal drive and add it as a slave to another machine. Also, the more you use the drive the less likely it is that you'll recover the data as you are writing over the sectors where it's stored.

05-10-2008, 02:08 AM	#1
goron Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 138 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	External Hard drive recovery My ex-HDD has crashed (and has RAW files), but the data is both viewable and recoverable in certain programs. However, most freeware programs for hard disk recovery have data transfer limits for extracting files (64kb file size). Can anyone recommend a good freeware (or otherwise) source, for a program that will enable me to to recover 20gb or so of data? I have tried about 6 or 7 different ones from google search, and they all seem to have data transfer limits.. Thanks in Advance

05-10-2008, 03:34 AM	#2
mickahcs Regular Waster Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Hal's SpaceShip Posts: 8,700 Thanks: 0 Thanked 29 Times in 5 Posts	i recommend this its not exactly freeware though __________________

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