Can you recommend recovery software

[vjones008]

I am trying to recover a few hundred MPEGS from a 500Gb Western Digital HDD (SATA) with (apparently unmapped) bad sectors.

I have tried 'Data Doctor FAT + NTFS' but it lingers over bad sectors too long - and I don't seem to be able to get it to accept the failure very quickly.

I dont think it matters to skip a few bad sectors in an MPEG, and would rather find recovery software that will skip over bad sectors (make the decision to skip) faster.

Thoughts?

[pcimage]

You need to image the drive first, with some non-windows based s/w.

e.g. CopyR, Media Tools Pro.

Then work from the image.

Hope this helps?

[vjones008]

OK - willdo.

After that, I simply reapply Data Doctor to the new image?

Any thoughts about how to repair the MPEGs (get them to work again)?

[km65]

my laptop dead i need to recover data and windows cd dont run help thanks mirza