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Data Recovery from Hard Drive
An update: The majority of the most critical files were recovered and were easily transfered to a new drive. I have noticed that many of the files that weren't recovered were .jpg files and fortunately were not critical. The major outstanding problem, at this moment, is trying to recover the...- scooter5
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Data Recovery from Hard Drive
Thanks all for the replys. In that time was short and the data needed I took a chance and tried GetDataBack from Run Time. I have previously, on the suggestion from CompUSA tech tried Ghost. GetDataBack worked! The time required was long (overnight) but it created a directory tree of the...- scooter5
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Data Recovery from Hard Drive
The old (i.e. bad) drive is XP also. As an update I may have this solved but would like to complete my work before posting it as solved.- scooter5
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Data Recovery from Hard Drive
A 60 GB IBM Hard Drive (single drive on the PC) crashed and became inaccessable. Digonstics indicated bad sectors. Drive was replaced and new Windows XP Pro with all updates was installed. The old (i.e. bad) 60 GB is now in a USB 2.0 enclosure and I am trying to recover the data if possible and...- scooter5
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