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you can try this. http://www.recuva.com
The absolute best program I’ve used, and the best I believe exists, is GetDataBack.
http://www.runtime.org/
Get the appropriate version. If your disk is NTFS, get that version.
When you run the program, it will show you all the files it can recover. Only then do they ask for money. It’s under $100, but if your time is worth anything, this program will save you hours and hours of grief.
And once you buy it, you can use it again when your next hard drive screws up.
It’s like magic, it has saved me a LOT of time and money, and well worth the $90 or so they are asking for it. But at least you can run it first and see if your drive can be recovered, then you can buy the program.
These outfits that charge you for data recovery use this program as well, but they won’t tell you that.
PS: Recuva is a program that can undelete files, but it cannot ransack a drive looking for chains of sectors that make up files.
On a hard disk, there are directories, which are actually files with pointers in them, files with a special attribute known as “directory attribute” — it has the size, date, etc., and starting cluster. Then the allocation table is referenced to find the chain of clusters that make up the file. The allocation table has an entry that points to the next cluster, and that entry points to the next cluster, until it points to nothing.
The getdataback program can deal with screwed up directories, messed up allocation tables (of which there are two, one is a copy of the other). It is indeed a major problem to get data from a drive with serious problems.
Simple recovery (undelete) simply changes the directory entry from “deleted” (a filename starting with ?) to undeleted, and hopefully the clusters in the file haven’t been given to another file before the deleted file is undeleted.
Depends if the data is corrupt or if the drive is actually damaged/broken.
They’ve got public software to recover corrupt data nowadays, but physically broken drives cost plenty of $$$ to fix.
It’s really quite simple to fix the drive, but it does take skill.