I recently suffered a hard-disk failure (Windows 2000 disk manager read the disk as healthy but of unknown file format) and downloaded several demo recovery programmes from the internet.
These proceded to make matters worse, to a horrendous degree, even though they were only supposed to be reading data. I thought my hard disk (a 6 month old, 60GB IBM Deskstar, IDE) was suffering severe physical breakdown.
Now my disk is with a 17 year old boy who is successfully recovering the data, although the sectors where these demo programs hard been `reading` were the most highly scrambled and took 20 hours to recover just 1%. Once past the points where these demos had been reading a further 40% was recovered in the next hour and today, the next day, I am expecting the whole disk returned, recovered, in full working ordered.
Considering the disk is physically OK, the only logical reason I can assign to the degredation is either bad work or foul play by the demo programs; which in each final case recommended contcting their main company for repair work; even though before they began their `analysis`the disk was still readable and accessable by Windows.
Am I being paranoid or are these companies deliberately sabotaging peoples`repair efforts in a move to charge them vast sums for having their siks repaired in-house.
Has anyone else had similar experiences???
Richard
These proceded to make matters worse, to a horrendous degree, even though they were only supposed to be reading data. I thought my hard disk (a 6 month old, 60GB IBM Deskstar, IDE) was suffering severe physical breakdown.
Now my disk is with a 17 year old boy who is successfully recovering the data, although the sectors where these demo programs hard been `reading` were the most highly scrambled and took 20 hours to recover just 1%. Once past the points where these demos had been reading a further 40% was recovered in the next hour and today, the next day, I am expecting the whole disk returned, recovered, in full working ordered.
Considering the disk is physically OK, the only logical reason I can assign to the degredation is either bad work or foul play by the demo programs; which in each final case recommended contcting their main company for repair work; even though before they began their `analysis`the disk was still readable and accessable by Windows.
Am I being paranoid or are these companies deliberately sabotaging peoples`repair efforts in a move to charge them vast sums for having their siks repaired in-house.
Has anyone else had similar experiences???
Richard
