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Looking for Really Good Data Recovery Software.....Any ideas ?

Discussion in 'Windows - Software discussion' started by davidod, May 19, 2012.

  1. davidod

    davidod Member

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    Hi

    My 2tb WD hard drive decided to die and downloaded Stellar Phoenix software to recover the files.

    The software was working away and I recovered about a quarter of the info when my 2 year old son pulled out the hard dfrive usb connection so I had to start again. Oh well !

    However since then the Sterllar Phoenix cannot even see the hard drive and although it is visible in my computer I cannot get the revovery softweare to work.

    Is there any better software i can use that might work?

    Also wondering why the hard drive has deteriorated further and why it stopped working in the first place ? The whole thing is very puzzling to me.......

    All advice would be very gratefully received.

    Dave
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    Any success?
    R-Studio, Recover My Files... the best two apps for this kind of job I tried (not both in all cases but at least one of them should work.) (Btw once in R-Studio I had to trim first 512 bytes of each recovered video file to get the correct ones, a bit strange but I saved about 400GB of movies this way.) Sounds like file or partition information was screwed up on your hard drive... Or maybe its electronics started dying... I guess the most of your data could be restored somehow, but in this case I would also check computer for viruses, USB cable, USB controller and even power supply. Regards, Alex
     
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    Perhaps, some problem arisen due to accidentally removing the hard drive. You can try again from scratch if possible. This do the tricks as i have already face this issue.
     
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    That's the joy of having 2 year olds it keeps you on your toes and makes your hair turn gray a lot faster.I know how you feel.
     
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