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 Post subject: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2010, 11:53 
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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?


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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2010, 18:07 
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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2010, 18:25 
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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!

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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 23rd, 2010, 20:58 
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i think there was a surface problem, it had some bad sectors if that makes a difference... :(


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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 24th, 2010, 4:14 
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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

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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 24th, 2010, 4:20 
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Maybe the bads that spinrite has "solved".... contained data.
Results of the DIY. What now ?


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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 25th, 2010, 10:51 
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thanks for the info guys.... and gals


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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 25th, 2010, 14:34 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 25th, 2010, 17:53 
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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...

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 Post subject: Re: Spinrite OMG
PostPosted: March 25th, 2010, 20:41 
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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.


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