----------------------------------- McKenzie Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:24 am NTFS Data Recovery? ----------------------------------- Does anyone know a good program to recover data from a corrupt drive using NTFS? A week and a half ago my wife's machine crashed bad. I tried the obvious solution of adding the drive to my machine, mine won't even boot with her drive attached. I have had some success with Active@recover from www.ntfs.com. With that I used a DOS boot disk, the program can read the drive but is very, very slow (16 hrs to scan root directory, 7 days to recover 5% of the lost data) I'm trying to recover about 6Gig of digital pics. Using this program It will take about 140 days straight. Does anyone know of a better program or method? ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:12 pm ----------------------------------- it it's the actual hard drive and it's still under the manufacturer's warranty, contact them... they'll likely get a credit card # from you (you likely won't be charged anything though) then they send you a new hard drive... once you get that one going (install windows, etc) you should check the manufacturer's website (or ask about it when they call) for a program to recover your data from your old hard drive... I've gone through this once or twice with hard drives crashing... both times the manufacturer was really cool about it... ----------------------------------- shorthair Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:18 pm ----------------------------------- What manufacturer did you deal with , Seagate told me it wasnt there problem ----------------------------------- Martin Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:10 pm ----------------------------------- http://www.elcomsoft.com/aefsdr.html this looks alright, I can probably aquire you a copy if you want. No questions asked :p ----------------------------------- McKenzie Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:42 pm ----------------------------------- From the above, it's a Maxtor, their site suggests that I'm SOL. Darkness, ya please if it's not too much trouble. ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:04 am ----------------------------------- Of course not. I wouldn't offer if it was too much of a problem ;) ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:41 am ----------------------------------- maxtor is who I have dealt with in the past and they've been really cool about it ----------------------------------- the_short1 Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:32 pm ----------------------------------- yea its a real pain having a hard drive crash.. and having to get the stuff off of it......WORSE.... :evil: is there anything like that available for Win98, with a hard drive crashing and loosing files to file001.file ETc..i forget whtat those are called...but yea... i lost every MB of HARd drive to float, only like 80 percent was regained, but into stupid file001.file deal ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:32 pm ----------------------------------- The best I can do is version 1.30 pro. I'll bring it to ya tomorrow. ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:36 pm ----------------------------------- the short1, no offence or anything, but with ur programming skillz and ur grammar, i dont think u'll make it as a software engineer ----------------------------------- Maverick Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:39 pm ----------------------------------- Hahaha you may have apoint. hey computer engineers dont have to do much programming correct? ----------------------------------- Andy Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:40 pm ----------------------------------- no... not really... sometimes tho, but u do need to know assembly ----------------------------------- Maverick Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:43 pm ----------------------------------- Well im really good at the hardware aspect, but weaker on the programming. i.e. 98%-hardware 82%-Programming. Still 90% tho. ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:26 pm ----------------------------------- assembly isn't that hard once you figure out how things work... you still need to have programming skills though ----------------------------------- Maverick Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:27 pm ----------------------------------- Ya i knwo. Im not bad at VB, Im just not great. ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:34 pm ----------------------------------- Look, stay on topic. Make a new thread if you want. ----------------------------------- Krabjuice Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:13 am ----------------------------------- If you want to recover passwords, just ask ^^ ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:37 pm ----------------------------------- Look, stay on topic. Make a new thread if you want. :roll: ----------------------------------- Andy Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:35 pm ----------------------------------- krabjuice ur a moron u noe that? ----------------------------------- Martin Mon Feb 16, 2004 12:10 am ----------------------------------- I'm working on cracking this...it's not working for some reason though, ----------------------------------- Andy Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:48 pm ----------------------------------- so y lock it?