I’m now the “IT Manager” for our small company. I have a user who’s laptop blue screened; he plugged the drive into another machine and found that the C: partition is corrupted.
Does anyone have any experience with any data recovery utilities? The system is Windows XP, so it has to handle NTFS. If not a utility, maybe a service?
I’ve had success with iRecover. It’s read-only, it doesn’t attempt to repair anything. It reads the files and writes to another disk. I think I wrote to a usb drive.
Of course your chance of success depends on how bad the corruption is. iRecover is $79.95 but there is a free download which does the reading but not the writing so you can determine if it is likely to be successful or not before you buy it.
Good luck
Ross
I used some tools from ontrack before, worked alright.
There are some decent tools available for free as well.
I once was able to reconstruct a little RAID with some linux recovery tools but it took aout 48 hours of processing! By the time it was done we’d already restored in other means.
Also this tool works quite well:
http://www.stellarinfo.com/