Spinrite OMG

[darkosski]

Hi guys im very new to data recovery but ive been in IT for eons.... one of my co-workers ran spinrite on a clients notebook which hard drive was failing.... the hard drive now seems to work stellar but he cant find the outlook.pst file :S is there any way to reverse spinrite or get back this outlook.pst file?

[drc]

[DataWreck]

Assuming there is no surface problems give it a once over with r-studio (scan the disk) you may get lucky and find your file. Dont do this if the drive is clicking!

:Leigh

[darkosski]

Datawreck

i think there was a surface problem, it had some bad sectors if that makes a difference...

[Zero Alpha]

Hello darkosski, Please read the spinrite wikipedia page as it gives good advice to amatuer data recovery technicians.

The heading 'Alternatives' may give good insight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite

[BlackST]

Maybe the bads that spinrite has "solved".... contained data.
Results of the DIY. What now ?

[darkosski]

thanks for the info guys.... and gals

[lcoughey]

That is why the Spinrite manual suggests backing up the data before running the program. Once a sector has been remapped, any data that it left behind is gone. You might get lucky with a full scan of the drive with R-Studio, but I would suggest mirroring the drive first.

As I tell my clients...before Spinrite is run...usually less than $500...after Spinrite is run...likely more than $1000, if recoverable at all.

[DataWreck]

I Agree 100% with luke(lcoughey).Image the drive first. Other than R-studio, GetDataBack by Runtime can stitch files back to the file system quite well. This is assuming you don't have software like DE at your disposal. Even then...

Leigh

[craig6928]

this is why you do a image of the drive first then use spinrite

i dont really use this for any recovery needs as i dont see how it can recovery in the help of your data

your find out that the data was on the bad sector
so it be bye bye data forever.