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Restore data from hard drive

Hello experts,
I have 2 hard drives from where I need to restore data:

1. First disk has bad sectors, and I just want to use some software to skip bad parts and restore data from good parts
The problem is that in some part of the disk restore stuck, and not going forward (there is a lot of bad sectors)

2. Second disk missed partition information and became FAT16 instead of NTFS partition. I can't see anything on disk.
Used a lot of different software, but non of them can see data.

Thanks to all and Happy New Year

Fayaz

Perform a disk defragment and check disk to fix the first disk - may take some time but see the results.
Second disk you can try to convert to NTFS, e.g. from a command prompt "convert D: /FS:NTFS

IKeystone

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defragment stuck. convert doesn't help.

Eirman

You can run GETDATABACK for free to see if your data is recoverable - You only pay to actually recover your data

http://www.runtime.org

IKeystone

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Just to add: Disk is 10 G size instead of 40, and a lot of folders with strange symbols name.

GETDATABACk can't find any data. Also Ontrack.

PWeerakoon

Try this...

http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1

It is totally freeware under Creative Commons License.

It'll definitely work for the second disk but for the first disk it's hard to say, but I have had some luck with this program on pretty badly damaged disks..

madunix

we use for our office the following software, they are really good
http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/

but you can find other software, i ll try to list them
Active File Recovery
Active Partition Recovery
Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery
DiskInternals Partition Recovery
EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional
File Scavenger recovery
FileRecoveryAngel
Handy Recovery
Iolo Search and Recover
Magic Recovery Professional
OnTrack Easy Recovery Professional
PC Inspector File Recovery
PC Tools File Recover
Pen Drive data recovery
Photo Recovery Genius
Power Data Recovery
R-Studio Data Recovery
Runtime GetDataBack for NTFS
Seagate FILE RECOVERY for Windows
Sim Card Data Recovery
Smart Data Recovery for USB Flash Drives
USB Flash Drive Data Recovery
WinMend Data Recovery

google can give you the link of the above, just try to read more about above software and if they can support you with trial version

madunix

IKeystone

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The problem in second disk is that when software see FAT16, it try to recover with this parameter. And it is not right. How can I remove MBR and FAT again, recreate it with NTFS, and try recovery. Or raw recovery ?

BTW - I already tried almost all of this software

madunix

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ got raw recovery ..

IKeystone

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Checked. No data found. All problem that I have FAT16. Need to delete it somehow first

PWeerakoon

Did you check the link I submitted? It won't care about the FAT16 vs NTFS. It can read the data without a Table. I wouldn't try to delete or "fix" anything right now. You could permanently loose all your data. The only good option is to "read" the data off the disk. Don't even try to install any of these recovery software onto the damaged disk. Install the program to a different disk, start the program and read the data off the damaged disk.

http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?Language=1

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BillDL

Thank you IKeystone.