Recovering lost files on disk [without partition]

#1 aze

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Posted 12 July 2002 - 07:44 PM

Hello!

I'm looking for a truly recovering deleted partitions and/or files program.
You can find by the net EASY RECOVER PRO, WINTERNALS DISK COMMANDER and other similar recovering programs. But I checked these programs cannot truly recover deleted partitions and files. They just appearance ($) recover programs. These weak programs cannot recover files/partition from a disk which were just the M-B-R sector erased!

Do u know a program really works on recovering?

thanks!

#2 Admiral LSD

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Posted 12 July 2002 - 07:56 PM

You have got to be kidding about Winternals Disk Commander. A couple months back my partition table got quite royally screwed over (through a combination of Partition Magic and Yours Truly) and out of everything I tried (and believe you me, I tried a lot of different programs), Disk Commander was by far the best. Using it, I was able to recover almost 100% of my important data (the only thing I wasn't able to recover was an MP3 that had a Unicode character in its filename). The only thing wrong with Disk Commander is its price, USD$299 is way too much to charge for this type of program.

#3 Uykucu

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Posted 13 July 2002 - 01:01 AM

Whatever you do, first make an image of that drive. then start trying.

#4 yutao

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Posted 16 June 2005 - 09:42 AM

Originally posted by aze:

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Do u know a program really works on recovering?

thanks!

Partition Table Doctor 3.0 -- partition recovery tool.
Partition Table Doctor is the only real software for hard disk
partition recovery when you experience a drive error
(other than hardware failure) this versatile tool automatically
checks and repairs the Master Boot Record, partition table, and
the boot sector of the partition with an error, to recover the
FAT16/FAT32/NTFS/NTFS5/EXT2/EXT3/SWAP partitions on
IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives. It can create an emergency
floppy disk or a bootable CD for partition recovery even if your
operating system fails to boot. Partition Table Doctor manager
for MS-DOS, Freedos, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0,
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

http://www.ptdd.com
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm

#5 jmmijo

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Posted 16 June 2005 - 07:09 PM

I concur with yutao on this one, Partition Table Doctor is great for repairing the MBR.

There is also another option if you have another HD you can copy recovered files to, the app is called R-Studio, it recovered many files from a corrupted/hosed RAID Zero disk array for me

#6 yutao

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Posted 22 June 2005 - 07:51 AM

en, I think recover partition table is more quick.

#7 yutao

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 10:55 AM

Originally posted by jmmijo:

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#8 kmzpub

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Posted 29 October 2005 - 07:27 PM

Hi,

Active@ undelete plays it really cool. It's algorithm is extremely powerful so it never failed me before. Give it a try, you won't regret it.
http://www.partition-recovery.com/
For DOS based recovery Active@ uneraser is the choice IMHO.
http://www.uneraser.com/