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by comptekm

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I don't know howto tell if files that I recover will be corrupt because I seem to be doing that alot and just wasting my time in the long run when I try to test those files and they don't run at all. Please someone help me with this! I'm trying to recover data from almost 100 gb hd system and feel i'm wasting my time. And i've read the help files also and they don't go into full summary's

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by bobho

I think it really all depends. I use Easy Recovery Pro but I think they all basically work the same. Recovery programs either read the FAT tables or do a RAW recovery by sequentially reading every sector on the drive to be recovered (which takes much longer).

Most recovery programs will not allow you to recover to the same drive. I usually plug the questionable drive into a good system as a slave and recover the data to my master drive. If the drive being recovered is physically damaged thenI restore the recovered files to a new drive and replace the damaged drive in the original system with the new drive. I have had quite good luck recovering almost everything even with a drive that is totally trashed but there are times when the drive is so totally damaged that recovery is impossible. There are too many variables to know ahead of time what is possible and what is not.

Regards,

DrBob:>)

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