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| marcus 2004-08-24, 6:53 pm |
| I have a 2Gb drive with a corrupt MBR - the disk reads as unformatted. It
contained some important files which were a backup and which are now
unreadable.
Does anyone know of anyone or any software I could use to retrieve these
files.
Thanks in advance
marcus
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| Howard Kaikow 2004-08-24, 6:53 pm |
| Safest thing to do is:
1. Immediately stop using the drive in any way, i.e., remove the logical
drive from the system.
2. If the drive is still under warranty, contact the drive manufacturer to
find out who are the AUTHORIZED data recovery services. Drive manufacturer's
web site likely has a list of AUTHORIZED data recovery services at the
drive.
3. Contact an AUTHORIZED data recovery service. Usually, www.ontrack.com
will be authorized, try them.
It will cost at least a few hundred dollars to retrieve the files, but if
the files are important, that's the safest way to go.
--
http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
"marcus" <m@anderton.f9.co.uk> wrote in message
news:412b4df9$0$88397$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...
> I have a 2Gb drive with a corrupt MBR - the disk reads as unformatted. It
> contained some important files which were a backup and which are now
> unreadable.
>
> Does anyone know of anyone or any software I could use to retrieve these
> files.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> marcus
>
>
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| On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:18:09 +0100, "marcus" <m@anderton.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a 2Gb drive with a corrupt MBR - the disk reads as unformatted. It
>contained some important files which were a backup and which are now
>unreadable.
>
>Does anyone know of anyone or any software I could use to retrieve these
>files.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>marcus
>
personally I use PC Inspector File Recovery,, you can dl the program from their
site,, and it'll scan the hd,, it recovered my files, all 40 some gig,, when the
partition table was damaged
home page: http://www.pcinspector.de/,, it's freeware,, but very good
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