[robortjack]

i am in trouble due to my hrad disk crash anybody can help me ,how to recover my all data from hard disk.i never ever have any backup of my important data now i want my data back,can you give me any idea of Recovery tool .

[soilume563]

Hello,

unfortunalely, in my opinion, you cannot recover all your data, you have lost a good part of it.
There was software which can help to recover some data of an Crashed HDD but i never use it and i don't know if it does a good job.

Search on google for exemple : recovery software or something like this. Maybe you can find a good solution.

Bye

[sophia1134]

There are some free software available but they are good for small amount of data mostly. I have full version of Kernel for FAT and NTFS which i used with 100 percent success in the past. Give it a try if you want to recover all your data without loosing a single bit of it. Kernel for Windows Data Recovery is impeccable and most proficient Windows Disk Recovery software that has been devised to cater the need of recovering the data lost from computer's hard disk

[LiveBrianD]

Here's something to try - put the drive in the freezer in an airtight plastic bag, and leave it there for up to 24 hours. If you're lucky, the drive might start for a little while, allowing you to recover your files. If you get it working, work FAST, and get your important filea first, as you might not get the drive started again, and you probably won't have much time.

[LincolnSpector]

Hi, robortjack, and welcome to the forums.

Does the hard drive make odd sounds when you turn on the PC? If it does, your only option is to remove the drive and send it to a data recovery service. The two best known are Ontrack and DriveSavers. As I've never figured out a practical way to test these services, I can't recommend a particular one.

If the drive isn't making funny noises, you may have other options. The first thing you should do is try to examine the disc without depending on booting from it. You can do this two ways:

1) Via a live Linux flash drive. For this job, I recommend Parted Magic, which has a good data recovery program. For more details, see The Bootable Maintenance Flash Drive.

2) Remove the hard drive, and attach it to another computer using a SATA/USB adapter. Then you can use a Windows-based data recovery program.

If neither of these pan out, you'll have to use a recovery service.

These services are expensive. Expect to pay hundreds--or thousands--of dollars. I'm sorry to say this, but that's the price you pay for not backing up.

Lincoln

[Dellinsp531]

Here is another free tool:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

There are programs to recover date on this CD.

[brainout]

LiveBrianD, on 17 July 2012 - 07:41 AM, said:

Here's something to try - put the drive in the freezer in an airtight plastic bag, and leave it there for up to 24 hours. If you're lucky, the drive might start for a little while, allowing you to recover your files. If you get it working, work FAST, and get your important filea first, as you might not get the drive started again, and you probably won't have much time.

That's an interesting idea. So after the 24 hours are up, how long do you 'defrost' the drive before you plug it into the computer? Won't condensation be an issue, possible moisture problems between the cord and your machine, after plugging the drive in?

[brainout]

FIRST CHECK YOUR USB CORD. It might not be your drive at fault, but only the cord. I lost so much time on a failed drive, thinking that it was the drive, when it turned out to be only the cord. The drive was SimpleTech, and the cord was bad so XP couldn't read the drive. I didn't know that. It had been working fine, before. But (looking back), I realize now maybe some update to XP, might have changed how it reads USB drives. I learned this solution by mistake: not wanting to junk the drive, I simply changed the USB cord to Amazon Basics plain-vanilla USB, and the drive suddenly worked on all my machines. Sigh.

As for recovering deleted files, there are a lot of solutions, but most of them require the hard drive to still be working. I used EASEUS Recovery manager when (so I thought) that hard drive died, and it did recover SOME of the files -- but recovered all the titles, so I knew what was on it.

EASEUS can mess up your MBR or MFT in that situation, and I'm not sure it's EASEUS which will be at fault. It might be that during the extraction process, any MBR or MFT settings in the drive from which you're recovering, change your computer's root drive. All I know is, my root drive of my computer was messed up, afterwards. EASEUS wants me to test the problem and see if I can recreate it. So I will, but haven't done that, yet. They are very helpful people.

Problem with EASEUS is that you should install its partitioning and recovery programs onto an external hard disk which will not contain any other important files. XP and EASEUS do not get along. I don't know how well Win7 and EASEUS get along, haven't upgraded to Win7. Again, I still need to do more troubleshooting on the problem, but to avoid it the meanwhile, don't install EASEUS on your root drive, nor on a hard disk which has important files. I made both mistakes, and got MFT problems. (Again, not sure those problems are related to EASEUS, but the MFT went awry, just after using EASEUS, and I lost a day in troubleshooting.)

Try doing it on a stick which is 10GB or smaller. I don't know if using an SSD would be a good idea.

This post has been edited by brainout: 18 August 2012 - 06:20 AM

[LiveBrianD]

brainout, on 18 August 2012 - 05:08 AM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 17 July 2012 - 07:41 AM, said:

Here's something to try - put the drive in the freezer in an airtight plastic bag, and leave it there for up to 24 hours. If you're lucky, the drive might start for a little while, allowing you to recover your files. If you get it working, work FAST, and get your important filea first, as you might not get the drive started again, and you probably won't have much time.

That's an interesting idea. So after the 24 hours are up, how long do you 'defrost' the drive before you plug it into the computer? Won't condensation be an issue, possible moisture problems between the cord and your machine, after plugging the drive in?

The idea is that you keep it airtight, so there isn't any condensation. See this: http://lifehacker.co...r-freezer-redux

[LiveBrianD]

brainout, on 18 August 2012 - 06:18 AM, said:

FIRST CHECK YOUR USB CORD. It might not be your drive at fault, but only the cord. I lost so much time on a failed drive, thinking that it was the drive, when it turned out to be only the cord. The drive was SimpleTech, and the cord was bad so XP couldn't read the drive. I didn't know that. It had been working fine, before. But (looking back), I realize now maybe some update to XP, might have changed how it reads USB drives. I learned this solution by mistake: not wanting to junk the drive, I simply changed the USB cord to Amazon Basics plain-vanilla USB, and the drive suddenly worked on all my machines. Sigh.

As for recovering deleted files, there are a lot of solutions, but most of them require the hard drive to still be working. I used EASEUS Recovery manager when (so I thought) that hard drive died, and it did recover SOME of the files -- but recovered all the titles, so I knew what was on it.

EASEUS can mess up your MBR or MFT in that situation, and I'm not sure it's EASEUS which will be at fault. It might be that during the extraction process, any MBR or MFT settings in the drive from which you're recovering, change your computer's root drive. All I know is, my root drive of my computer was messed up, afterwards. EASEUS wants me to test the problem and see if I can recreate it. So I will, but haven't done that, yet. They are very helpful people.

Problem with EASEUS is that you should install its partitioning and recovery programs onto an external hard disk which will not contain any other important files. XP and EASEUS do not get along. I don't know how well Win7 and EASEUS get along, haven't upgraded to Win7. Again, I still need to do more troubleshooting on the problem, but to avoid it the meanwhile, don't install EASEUS on your root drive, nor on a hard disk which has important files. I made both mistakes, and got MFT problems. (Again, not sure those problems are related to EASEUS, but the MFT went awry, just after using EASEUS, and I lost a day in troubleshooting.)

Try doing it on a stick which is 10GB or smaller. I don't know if using an SSD would be a good idea.

Hmm... EASEUS has worked fine for me, in both XP and 7.

[brainout]

Thank you, LiveBrianD. As for my EASEUS experience, as I tried to explain, it's not certain what caused the problems. So to test later on, I'll install EASEUS separately on a dedicated external HDD (probably flash), then try to repeat the steps.

The problem a year ago was on an older edition of EASEUS, and I just upgraded at the end of July, when my registry went out anyway in May, so I had to reinstall everything. I like the EASEUS people. Don't like the software interface, it's confusing, but everything with Windows is jargon and guesswork, anyway.

One day I'll get a life.

[FascistNation]

You can almost always recover data---it is just a matter of 'how much you are willing to pay?'

Is it your drive is the first question.

Understand the more you try to manipulate it the more damage to the platters you may do. Generally if you are willing to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars then the recovery experts tell you to do nothing and get in touch with them for shipping instructions.

Do it yourself. Like someone said, try a known working cable. And move the drive to a different computer and try to access the drive as a secondary drive (this then eliminates a bad MB controller or PSU connection as the cause). If you only have one PC you can move the drive to a second controller if available. If you have a laptop as a second PC you can use a USB interface cable with power if you have it (not optimal solution).

If you can detect the bad drive use rapid imaging app like Macrium Reflect or Acronis. If they can't work you can try a Windows based rescue app or I prefer to boot a Linux based OS and do a DD or similar brute force sector by sector transfer.

If you use a paid app (free to try) you have to use a credit card to get a one time use license to recover what it shows you it can recover. I don't think this will work very well on a bad drive as opposed to a user deleting partitions or a quick formatting (or long format in XP) a drive where recover is assured.

If you can't detect the drive let it run for up to an hour (assumes the drive powers up). Still no, reboot and repeat this process several times. Every once in a while a bad drive will slowly come alive and allow access. Be absolutely ready with whatever transfer app you are going to try so if you get a shot you take it.

The freeze trick won't work because striction is not a problem with ATA drives. If you do it, put dehydrated rice or a few paper towels in the sealed bag to absorb any moisture coming out of the air. Once again be ready to immediately try your recovery if you get the drive recognized.

If you buy your drives in multiples so they are likely to have the same board with firmware revision, you can backup a working drive and then transfer the board to the bad drive to see if you can access the bad drive now (that is bad board).

How much is a backup worth now?

This post has been edited by FascistNation: 18 August 2012 - 02:46 PM

[johhny]

You can try downloading data recovery software available free of cost on the internet and recover your precious data.

[robortjack]

soilume563, on 17 July 2012 - 01:51 AM, said:

Hello,

unfortunalely, in my opinion, you cannot recover all your data, you have lost a good part of it.
There was software which can help to recover some data of an Crashed HDD but i never use it and i don't know if it does a good job.

Search on google for exemple : recovery software or something like this. Maybe you can find a good solution.

Bye

Thank you for you information
i search in google as you told but i am now confused to know more software here as

Kernel for Window data recovery
Systool
Recoveryfix for window data recovery
steller

please advice me for select one

[robortjack]

sophia1134, on 17 July 2012 - 04:42 AM, said:

There are some free software available but they are good for small amount of data mostly. I have full version of Kernel for FAT and NTFS which i used with 100 percent success in the past. Give it a try if you want to recover all your data without loosing a single bit of it. Kernel for Windows Data Recovery is impeccable and most proficient Windows Disk Recovery software that has been devised to cater the need of recovering the data lost from computer's hard disk

Thank you very much for providing information about software.

[rascal27]

just use the partition recovery software and iCare data recovery software...partition recovery used to allocate the hard drive partition and icare data recovery used to recover the data even after format the hard drive....

[terryromance]

sophia1134, on 17 July 2012 - 04:42 AM, said:

There are some free software available but they are good for small amount of data mostly. I have full version of Kernel for FAT and NTFS which i used with 100 percent success in the past. Give it a try if you want to recover all your data without loosing a single bit of it. Kernel for Windows Data Recovery is impeccable and most proficient Windows Disk Recovery software that has been devised to cater the need of recovering the data lost from computer's hard disk

You can comfortably recover data from a crashed hard drive by removing it from your PC and then install it as a secondary drive in another PC. You need to ensure that you enable the hard drive controller within the bios so as to detect the hard drive.

This post has been edited by terryromance: 22 February 2013 - 01:14 AM