Author Topic: Drive Recovery Software - whats best? (Read 258 times)

Black Sheep · « **on:** April 05, 2005, 10:46:38 PM »

Before upgrading to my new puter, I had an issue with a 20GB Maxtor. The problem was that everytime I tried to access the drive (either through a shortcut or My Computer) it would hang the whole system up indefinitely. Anyways - alot of my pictures ( about 3 GB worth) are on that drive and was wondering if there is a certain Recovery Software I should try before sending this thing to a Drive Recovery Place......which will cost a minimum of $500 - Please help - I'm going to attempt to put the drive in the new machine and see if it will work too. Although it is a UDMA and my new system has SATA.

Ghosth · « **Reply #1 on:** April 06, 2005, 07:07:11 AM »

I would start with the Maxtor utilities.

Should be able to download them from their site, then put them on a floppy.

JB66 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2005, 01:21:41 PM »

IMO PC file inspector ver. 3

Version 4 is out, but the interface is now "messy".

Plus its free. I've used it on a number of occasions, and as long as the drive is still functioning. It can recover fat and ntfs files.

If you can't find version 3, I'll email it to you as an attachment.

eilif · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2005, 03:23:19 AM »

oy, ya i got a crapy maxtor 200 gig whopper, the day i got it, didnt work much, always gives me a saying on start up"back up hard drive, falure is detected" always checks for inconsistency too, better check these programs out myself.