[Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

[Ian Fisher]

ahhh..IIRC, Seagate's ActiveX utility scanned the
drive online and said that it had possible bad
sectors.

Thanks for the link-Ironically I had just read it last
night but didn't investigate the testdisk utility. I
saw that the article was a few years old so I was
wondering if anyone had experience with anything newer
or better. 

It looks like I need a new HD to transfer data to if
this works. :)

Thanks!
Ian


--- cmichaelo@optonline.net wrote:

> Ian,
> 
> Sounds like you have both lost your partition
> information, or that the partition info has been
> damaged, which might explain why your drive is full
> all of a sudden.
> 
> You said up front that you have bad sectors. How do
> you know this?
> 
> There are ways to examine and possibly recover a
> harddrive that doesn't boot and which has messed up
> partition info.
> 
> Check out testdisk:
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
> 
> testdisk and other freeware recovery utilities are
> discussed here:
>
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1139
> 
> 
> Michael
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