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by snuffy09 1 view

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looking for free Formatted Disk Recovery Software.

Friend of mine had a HD that he formatted but wants pics off of it now. Tried some tools on hiren's boot disk and they didn't do the trick.

need something that will run on XP or a boot disc.

Thanks

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by iaml3g3nd

On Track Easy Recovery is a good program to use for this kind of raw recovery. It also works well with "accidental" formats and file deletion.

You should be able to run the software locally ont he machine and find what you need. in advanced cases its sometimes easier to just pull the drive hook it up to an external ide / sata to USB hookup and run the recovery from another machine. That way no running processes get in the way etc..

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/0707_data-recovery-software/?psearch=google

by oh smeg

This is the best App that I have ever used for this type of work but it's most defiantly not free. ;)

Col

by snuffy09

but they seem to be corrupt... is there such a thing as a .jpeg repair software?

by oh smeg

IT writes to every third Sector of the HDD leaving the remaining 2/3 untouched so that any files that you recover are incomplete.

Here you need a Forensic Recovery Application to recover the images. Unfortunately I'm not aware of a free one but a cheap one is X Ways Forensics.

http://www.x-ways.net/forensics/index-m.html

Not sure of the price now but it is good at what it does. Though it's not for beginners. ;)

Drive Look may be useful to you but as I've never used it I'm unsure how well it works or how easy it is to use but it's free.

http://www.runtime.org/drivelook.htm

Col

by wez0

tuneup utilities 2010 works great

by snuffy09

Thanks all

But I was unsuccessful in restoring the pics. I was able to retrieve the pics from Formatted HD with the help of the tools you suggested but they were still corrupt when i tried to open them.

I only took on the mission(free) because the drive contained pictures of my friends dad who had passed away but my friend understands the odds were slim so nothing gained, nothing lost.

thanks again

by cg it

you can try EASEUS Professional Edition.

I've used it to recovery data on dynamic disks that can't be placed back in the system. It will find, then reorganize and save to location [not on the original disk]with very little errors.

Free version won't let you do partition/disk recovery.

No guarantees. If the data is corrupted or overwritten on the drive itself, then chances it's unrecoverable without spending some big money.

http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/resize-raid-partition.htm

by snuffy09

like i said i did it for free to help a friend out so i am not about to spend some big bucks.

by cg it

and it will recover data on disks and on dynamic disks, which if you've got those, you have to put them back in the system that created the dynamic disk. Without that, you can only recover the data. This tool will do that. it's worth the price if the data recovered cost more that $59.00 USD.

But formatted over data, it's recoverable except [well you could try ] with all X all 0 wipes. but the tools for that aren't free.

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