Data Recovery (NTFS Volume(s))

[Canelek]

I had a SATA controller meltdown recently that makes Windows 7 now see both drives as unallocated space. Is there anything out there that works well to recover data? Obviously, I'd prefer this to be a low cost zero cost venture.

Thanks!

edit: These are media volumes. OS is performing fine, so a Windows app would be cool as far as recovery.

[Winnow]

You're soooo screwed!


I'll have to look at the Data Recover apps I used. Hopefully you don't have 500K images to recover!

Sata controller issue is probably much easier to recover data from than a failed partition attempt.

[Canelek]

Yeah, it should be there. I just need a means to recover data to a different location until I can reformat and run diagnostics on bad one. I am pretty sure they failed during an index operation and the SATA (onboard) freaked out. Losing the data would suck, but I'd live. Regardless, I am going to get some fault tolerance solution or just at least back my shit up.

Thanks for helping!

[Animalor]

If they aren't in a raid configuration, I would recommend giving spinrite a try. The thing is supposedly fantastic although I've never had a chance to use it myself.

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm (GRC has a full money back guarantee)

[Canelek]

Interesting. However, their website is not very professional. I'd have issue giving them that much money! For $89 a pop, I'd expect them to be able to handle something more complex than a remidial circa-1996 website. A CC transaction would seem rather daunting.

I'll keep it in mind though, thanks!

I am really in that no cost mood for this.

[Animalor]

The guy that runs the site/company is called Steve Gibson. He's a security researcher and absolutely hates javascript. The site looks the way it does cause he wrote everything by hand and in HTML.
Check out the source for the page. Incredibly clean and organised.

He writes everything he does in assembly as well.

He also hosts the Security Now podcast with Leo Laporte.

[Xouqoa]

he wrote everything by hand and in HTML

He writes everything he does in assembly as well.

That's some serious geek cred, there.

[Canelek]

Fair enough. I guess I should appreciate that, since I was an old notepad/photoshop 3 guy in the early years....and C64 Assembly back in the day. Or was that machine language? I forget... JSR $D000 etc...

[Zaelath]

Gibson is a twat. I still recall giggling my ass off when he basically claimed to invent ping a few years back, and the other rant against Windows having a full TCP stack ("RAW sockets").

I'd recommend "Get Data Back NTFS". Fantastic product.

[Canelek]

Trying that one now. Looks like I will find out in about 3 hours (1TB drive) if I have some shit to recover.

[Canelek]

Spinrite and Getdataback products did not do the trick.

Looks like DiskInternals 3.5 is the only product that at least showed me everything that could be recovered. However, they want $100. Meh!

Guess I have to now mull over how much I want that data back! I think I read something about a guarrantee, so it may be worth it.

[Animalor]

Sorry dude. But hey, at least thig thread has produced a great amount of recommendations =)

[Winnow]

Spinrite and Getdataback products did not do the trick.

Looks like DiskInternals 3.5 is the only product that at least showed me everything that could be recovered. However, they want $100. Meh!

Guess I have to now mull over how much I want that data back! I think I read something about a guarrantee, so it may be worth it.

Sorry I havent' been able to figure out what I used to recover "some" of my data.

Most of the programs i tried resulted in recovering files but they weren't' named, just jibberish names and while I could see most files, it was recovered in sequential folders with random names that had nothing to do with my original folder structure.

One program did recover an entire truecrypt 100mb file though. I'll try to figure out which one it was.

[Canelek]

Yes, this has been an insightful thread. Thank you to all that have helped!

I think I may wait a bit and try some other products. I'll just leave the drive as "unallocated" until I find something cheap or free, or I give in and pay for DiskInternals.

[Aardor]

If you pick out some products you want to use/try, I'll see if i can pirate them anywhere for you.

[Winnow]

If you pick out some products you want to use/try, I'll see if i can pirate them anywhere for you.

All I did was surf the net for data recovery apps...made up a list and then went shopping on the newsgroups.

[Canelek]

Too bad I cancelled my NewsGroup subs!

I sucked at browsing them anyway...

DiskInternals NTFS Recovery 3.5 would be the one I would search for...well, if I were to do that sort of thing....

[Canelek]

wink wink nudge nudge etc

[Winnow]

dont be lazy! you just gotta look around

http://www.rlslog.net/stellar-phoenix-w ... -0-1-ngen/

http://www.rlslog.net/oo-software-diskr ... mesmerize/

[Aslanna]

Too bad I cancelled my NewsGroup subs!

I sucked at browsing them anyway...

That's why SuperSearch was invented!

[Canelek]

Winnow: That Phoenix app seems to be working. You are super-awesome and I owe you booze.

[Canelek]

I was able to recover about 75% of my shit, which is great! The scan stopped working at about that point, but once you stop the stalled out scan, it will show all of the things it recovered anyway. At that point I simply selected the folders I wanted and simply moved them to another drive.

Thanks again!

[Winnow]

Cool, that's how it worked for me as well. Much better than another recovery app that presented m with random names for recovered files in buckets of 1000 item folders.