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Author:  vjones008 [ November 30th, 2007, 9:06 ]
Post subject:  Can you recommend recovery software

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?

Author:  pcimage [ November 30th, 2007, 16:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: Can you recommend recovery software

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?

Author:  vjones008 [ November 30th, 2007, 17:01 ]
Post subject:  Re: Can you recommend recovery software

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)?

Author:  km65 [ December 26th, 2007, 14:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: Can you recommend recovery software

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

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