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Eeyore

Meat Plow wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
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Eeyore wrote:
"Kevin G. Rhoads" wrote:

But try SPINRITE first.

Is there a trial version ? It's $89 to buy.

I had a Maxtor 300 gig drive go toes up April 13 (yep, Friday). 260
gig NTFS partition showed up as un-formatted, no partition info. My
brother suggested "GetDataBack for NTFS". It took 6 hours to walk
through the partiton and re-construct the directories so that they
could be copied to a new drive. You can try this for free and then pay
the registration to actually recover the data. Nearly everything was
salvaged. The casualties were small (50 Kb) word files but almost all
the photos and .WAV files were fine. There is also a version for FAT
for $10 less. It wasn't a fun week but it ended up better than I
hoped.

Thanks for that suggestion. I got the trial of the FAT version to see what it
does.

Do NOT use Spinrite.

What's your reason for saying that ? I'm not going to btw, but I'd like to know
your reason.

Graham