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Codegen
Feb 13th, 2006, 10:12 PM
I have an old 40Meg (Yes, meg) Seagate HD that didn't seem to like the transport home to be backed up.

The monitor died and because you can't find monochrome monitors anymore, we decided on just grabbing a setup from Crappy Computer Corner (section of the building for crap).

This thing has (or had) 15 years worth of work on it, and of course this was the one thing that didn't get backed up at all. My dad said he could redo most of it, but you just know that something's going to bite him up the ass when someone calls and asks "Hey, you remember that thing you did 3 years ago....?"

Anyways, it's giving me errors about bad sectors and a ****ed up file allocation table. IS there anyway I can go about recovering this?

spm24
Feb 13th, 2006, 10:28 PM
some recovery programs let you grab the files through a raw setting . in the www.100-downloads.com they have a couple freeware u can try to use on it .

Loco
Feb 14th, 2006, 02:55 AM
The one I've used with the most success is Easy Recovery Pro. I think they were bought out by Ontrack. The online trial allows you to see if the files can be recovered.

Codegen
Feb 17th, 2006, 09:13 PM
Oh ****,

I accidentily bumped the computer and got that nice smell of burning electronics coming from the drive....

I'm scared...

mp328
Feb 19th, 2006, 02:50 PM
The one I've used with the most success is Easy Recovery Pro. I think they were bought out by Ontrack. The online trial allows you to see if the files can be recovered.
yeah that one is the pretty much the best software out there.