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Free file recovery software SOLVED

Peter PrinciplePeter Principle Registered User regular
edited February 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
My hard drive with all my important data (pictures, save games, pr0n, etc) is broken. The drive appears to be operationally sound, it has just had something go sideways, possibly related to partitioning. BIOS detects the drive and so does windows if I go through disk management...but disk management only shows the disk present, it doesn't show the disk as formatted.

Recovery software like Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery and Recover My Files can scan the disk and they show all my missing files, but those silly geese want $70 to activate their software. Conveniently, they only let you know you need to pay to activate their stuff AFTER they've done the two hour scan.

Anyway, there's got to be a program out there that recovers files that won't make me miss my car payment this month. Help?

"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business." - Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer_
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  • FoomyFoomy Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

    this might work.

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  • zhen_roguezhen_rogue Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I've had good luck with Recuva.

    http://www.piriform.com/recuva

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  • lunchbox12682lunchbox12682 MinnesotaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I've had luck with various Linux liveCDs, try ubuntu or knoppix.

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  • Peter PrinciplePeter Principle Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Here's the one that worked for me:

    EASEUS Partition Master. It was fairly quick, and maintained, as far as I could tell, the original folder structure. Best of all, didn't try to tell me after doing an hours-long scan that I needed to pay to get my files.

    Just an FYI, the ones that did pull that shitty trick were:

    Recover My Files
    Stellar Phoenix
    Pareto

    Avoid those like the plague.

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    "A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business." - Eric Hoffer, _The True Believer_
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