https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/ en Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:36:41 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100841 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:36:41 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100841 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100840 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:10:58 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100840 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100839 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:13:42 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100839 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100838 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:27:27 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100838 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100837 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:23:01 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100837 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100836 WARNING This program is very dangerous to use. It deleted 12 folders on my C-drive when I tested recover of one file from a USB-disc. Using Windows Vista with SP1.]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:26:47 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100836 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100835 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:33:19 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100835 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100834 "...I have an old drive from my wife’s computer that was originally configured as FAT32, but had problems with partitioning and then showed as FAT16 with much less space. I have not fooled with it since it crashed, but would like to recover the data...." Hard to say what you have or don't -- depends on what happened with partitioning & with the crash. I'd suggest creating a disk image of the entire drive, restoring that to another drive/partition, & then playing with that -- you can always restore the image again to start from scratch that way. Personally I'd start with checking out the partitions to see what's there, what can be repaired or maybe rebuilt, what can be restored or un-deleted. You could try Partition Mgr software, or like Partition Table Doc, there are apps just to try and repair/recover/rebuild the partition data. You may get the FAT32 partition back just the way it was, which would be great. If not, you can try however many un-delete apps (like Multistage Recovery) you want or have the patience for. If it has to re-assemble files from clusters, un-delete software may need you to rename every recovered file, &/or recovery may be partial -- i.e. with a Word doc you may get the contents but lose all formatting. If the drive's that old, you may also need to pick up an IDE to SATA adapter -- I think Geeks & Meritline have them, & know DealExtreme offers several for less than $10. * * * #26: "I would download and try this if I knew it would recover files off an external hard drive.The hard drive just clicks.Ive tried other recovery programs to no avail..." If you can't read off the drive, nothing will help short of having recovery specialists take apart the drive & maybe scan the platters out of the drive, repair the drive leaving the platters intact etc. That said, there is a [likely *Very Slight*] chance that the drive itself might be repairable through a firmware update *IF* the problem's a manufacturer defect they've created a fix for. Being an external drive, I imagine there's also a chance the problem's with the electronics for the case. IF the drive's under warranty, do check out the fine print -- external drive warranties can be pretty screwy IMHO. If you do manage to get something to read from the drive, quickly create an image backup -- you can work from that image [restored to another drive/partition] to try & access/recover any files.]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:08:56 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100834 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100833 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:02:58 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100833 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100832 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:22:57 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/multistage-recovery-4-0/#comment-100832