What programs can recover data from a dead HD? any free ones?
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Easy recovery professional and other data recovery software can recover data from hard drive.\n\nbut for that hard drive should be in detectable condition and media of disk should be readable for having a little damage drive in working condition try putting it in freezer for 1 or 2.
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get the recovery software, like recover my files,
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Do you mean to recover your files? Try Recover My Files Data Recovery (it's free to try but you must buy it). Some people go to "Cracks" websites on the internet and find the cracks for these programs though! THe BEST one out there though is called VirtualLab Data Recovery. You cannot buy this one, you can only buy credits for the data you want to recover, but it is free to run and it finds everything! It worked phenomenally on my computer compared to the others but it does cost a lot more. You get to see what it found first before you buy it back. And they give out a small amount of free credits to you like every day I believe.
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You can try using programs that allow you to recover deleted files.  Go do www.download.com and do a search for "undelete" or "recover deleted files" and try that.  Be sure to check the license to be "free" or you might end up installing crap.  Otherwise try "eData Unerase Personal 3.0" or "Disk Investigator 1.31" both available for free at download.com\n\nNO NO NO- DO NOT USE SYSTEM RESTORE!!!!!  SYSTEM RESTORE DOES NOT RESTORE DATA.  If you use it, there is a VERY high chance that you will write over the spaces on your drive that still contain the deleted information.  DO NOT DO THAT!!!!
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If you really want it bad, and the Deleted Items bin has been emptied, try this:\n\nhttp://www.stompsoft.com/recoverlostdata2.html
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That's going to be difficult! Most recovery programs can undelete files that were stores on the Hard Drive. I use TuneUp Utilities 2006 which is excellent to give proper maintenance to your computer, plus it has the "undelete" or recovery utility. Unfortunately it ios NOT free, but it comes with a 30 day full-working trial.
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There are different programs that will "undelete" the items you need.\n\nFreeUndelete is a freeware data recovery program for deleted files. \n\nAbove is a free program that will work for you. Link below takes you to it.\n\nIt is not as hard as some people make it out to be. Don't listen to the people that think it is gone for good, they just are unaware of the different programs.
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use "DiskInternals Undelete" to recover the lost data to another proper drive, then you can reformat the c: drive and the it should work fine.. install windows then copy the recovered data back to the formatted drive
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About the only way would be to use a data recovery program.\n\nPC Inspector Smart Recovery is free and very good at recovering files. \n\nYou can get it here - http://www.download.com/PC-Inspector-Smart-Recovery/3000-2242_4-10261986.html?tag=lst-0-1\n\nI believe it will do the job for you.
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Try DataEraser™...\n\nOr, go to www.download.com and search for "data erase"--you'll find some software to try.
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Use Pc Inspector File Recovery
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That is extremely bad news, a few years ago it would be the worst. I'm afraid what you'll have to do is reformat the drive. \n\nFortunately all is not lost as there are two pieces of software that will recover the data from the drive after this has taken place.\n\nGetDataBack and Ontrack Easy Recovery - I've used GetDataBack before in the same situation and found it works brilliantly.\n\nThe best of luck, and next time remember to back up to DVD or CD.
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if you do a system recover from a cd ( like the ones you get from dell hp.. etc.. ) you drive has been formatted and all data erased..\n\nbut you can still recover data\nyou nned a good data recovery program like data robot by hauri, or ez recovery by ontrack and a second drive to recover too ( data recovery programs generally will not recover to the host drive ), it's bet to install the recovery program on the 2nd drive as well ( some can run off hte cd like data robot, but it does slow things down a bit )
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You can restore the file only if the place on the hard drive has not been over written. \nTry using a file recovery program like this one:\nhttp://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
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This is a really nifty program that I use a lot called File recover. It's below:
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There are a number of data recovery programs for different file systems - if you had a PC running Windows, you should look at Get Data Back from Runtime software - there are versions for noth FAT32 and NTFS, and it does an excellent job as long as there's no physical damage to the hardware.
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sorry man....but only an Ablolute Disk Sector reader program can read your disk now.....and it will need to be run from a DIFFERENT hard drive....\n\nContact a 'data recovery' professional, but you may find the cost to not be worth it.  several hundreds of dollars US.