NTFS Data Recovery?

McKenzie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:24 am

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 · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:18 pm

What manufacturer did you deal with , Seagate told me it wasnt there problem

Martin · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:04 am

Of course not. I wouldn't offer if it was too much of a problem Wink

PaddyLong · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** 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 or Very Mad

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 · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:39 pm

Hahaha you may have apoint. hey computer engineers dont have to do much programming correct?

Andy · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:40 pm

no... not really... sometimes tho, but u do need to know assembly

Maverick · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** 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 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:27 pm

Ya i knwo. Im not bad at VB, Im just not great.

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