After having to force reboot my Asus laptop, I was unable to boot into Windows. I had it looked at by a professional and he believes that the hard-drive is finally dead. So I was wondering how expensive it is to get a professional to fix the physical hard-drive so I can recover all my files.
Best reply by Anonymous:
I believe anywhere from $300 – $1,000 depending on the company.
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How expensive are hard-drive recovery services?
My old hard drive is corrupted and I want to salvage the files on it using a data recovery program I’ve downloaded. However getting the program to read it is difficult. Do I need to reformat the hard drive? When I go to reformat it says this will erase all data on the disk, but according to other websites I’ve read it should be fine and I should still be able to salvage files. Which is correct?
Best reply by Tony RB:
If you do a full format, all the data on the disk will be overwritten with the formatting data – and you will lose the data you want to retrieve.
There is a type of formatting called “quick format” but that erases all the folder data, and that means you will have even more problems finding the data you want.
You say getting the program to read it is difficult. If the hard drive is failing, then you will have enormous problems getting any program to work right.
If the only problem is corrupted folder structures, then a quick format *might* work to erase all of the corrupted data, leaving the other data. Then your data recovery program would have to scan the entire hard drive.
I use the free Recuva program from Piriform to recover data, but I don’t know how it would work in your situation. Recuva has the ability to scan all the hard drive sectors, it is an option. If you can get it to work, you will need another drive to have a place to copy the selected data.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Wikipedia article about Recuva:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuva
There are programs available that will read the data directly off the sectors of the hard drive and present it in hexadecimal format, but that doesn’t mean you can make enough sense out of the data to be able to recover it. The better programs also cost money.
Monday, March 8, 2010
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Should I reformat a hard drive before using a data recovery program?
My hard drive crashed in my HP and i have another one that is blank. If i stick the blank hard drive into my computer and press F10 to do the system recovery will it put the windows files and things on the hard drive? Will it interfere with the other hard drive if it Magically starts working and i use it again?
Best reply by kaustav_whoami:
The OS comes with HP recovery CD/DVD is an OEM edition of that OS. Of course you can install it on another hard disk but it will ask for a valid serial number; since the SID(security identifier) changes with the change of disk. If you can get a fresh serial number, you’re in.
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Can i use the HP recovery on a new hard drive?
I am looking for a data recovery software for memory cards? Does anyone know any free software? I have searched softpedia, majorgeeks, zdnet and cnet. All of them are serving only demo version. And demo version can’t save the files.
Best reply by Future:
My God, you also suffered data lose. I suffered data lose the day before yesterday.
If these files are really important for you , I suggest you try professional recovery software even though it charges for money. I think your valuable files are more important than just few dollars.
The day before yesterday I searched for file recovery software, and finally I found a professional one. With this software,I got back all my deleted(Shift+Del) files with nice quality.
To be surprise, it can also recover photos,and partition.
I used it, you can specify a target folder, which means you don’t need to scan all the data on the disk. first try the trail version. you can check if the files you need are recoverable form Preview Window to evaluate the quality before you buy.
Most important now it is on sale,maybe this news is exciting for you.
You can download from
http://www.data-recovery-utilities.com/data-recovery.html
Good luck to you
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Is there any free data recovery software’full Version) for memory card?
I lost my disk data which including photos, email, files and videos, I want to recover them by myself. Is there a tool that low in price but powerful and easy to use?
Best reply by Owner.Of.A.Lonely.Heart:
try to use recovermyfiles..
try searching it in google
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Where can I find a better quality data recovery tool?
I am using EASEUS data recovery wizard to try to recover my files on my external hard drive. It looked like this was working for a while but now it is stuck in one spot and the bar isn’t moving forward. It isn’t frozen as the timer keeps increasing. Should I wait and see what happens or start over?
Best reply by vulcan:
Stop EASEUS and run chkdsk /f on the problem drive. Then try EASEUS again.
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What do I do if the EASEUS data recovery wizard isn’t moving forward?
I have some confidential/private information in some of my files, so if i have a company do Data Recovery on my laptop that recently crashed are they going to be able to see all of my files?
Best reply by Mystic:
yes
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If i get a company to do Data Recovery on my crashed laptop, will they be able to see all of my files?
OMG i can’t believe it i accidentally recovered my c drive ( c drive starts all over) meaning that all the images i had are GONE!!!! all my previous files are gone for my pics and my documents!!! can anybody help me???? Is there a method or program that can help m recover those lost images PLZZZZ i need those pics back!!!
Best reply by Ripley:
you might need windows recover if you have windows on your computer or if it does not boot windows then it is lost.
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How to recover images after a hard drive recovery (washout)?
I have a XP, and if I did a full system recovery will I be able to erase all the stuff I put on my hard drive and including the hidden files?
Best reply by wiztek:
A short answer>>>>YES
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if you do a full system recovery, does your hard drive get erased and set back to factory settings.?
I just switched from Norton AV to Avast!.
Avast! requires that I set what areas to scan. This laptop is running on Vista Home Premium, and has a ‘D:’ drive for recovery files. Should I make the scan run on this hard disk partition?
Best reply by Colinc:
Yes. If the machine becomes infected, it can place files all over the system. I have even seen a virus infect every shared folder on a server from one machine.
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Should my scheduled virus scan run on the partition of my hard drive with recovery files?
