Hard disk recovery utilities...

Are there any good free utilities out there that anyone has used that will
allow you to recover/salvage data from a hard disk that has had it's
partition removed?

Basically I am looking for a tool that can read the HD at the lowest level
regardless of the OS/partitions etc...

Thanks,

Brad

Carey
Fri Dec 10 11:08:35 CST 2004

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"Brad Pears" wrote:

| Are there any good free utilities out there that anyone has used that will
| allow you to recover/salvage data from a hard disk that has had it's
| partition removed?
|
| Basically I am looking for a tool that can read the HD at the lowest level
| regardless of the OS/partitions etc...
|
| Thanks,
|
| Brad

Project
Fri Dec 10 11:10:19 CST 2004

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:15:33 -0500, "Brad Pears"
<donotreply@notreal.com> wrote:

>Are there any good free utilities out there that anyone has used that will
>allow you to recover/salvage data from a hard disk that has had it's
>partition removed?
>
>Basically I am looking for a tool that can read the HD at the lowest level
>regardless of the OS/partitions etc...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brad
>

Dont know of any free ones that are any good but I have used ERD 2003
Commander to recover data from lost partitions many times and it works
very well.

Steve
Fri Dec 10 11:27:14 CST 2004

Brad Pears wrote:
> Are there any good free utilities out there that anyone has used that
> will allow you to recover/salvage data from a hard disk that has had
> it's partition removed?
>
> Basically I am looking for a tool that can read the HD at the lowest
> level regardless of the OS/partitions etc...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad

http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/?pageTarget=Software&buttonName=Free+Software

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DanQuinton
Fri Dec 10 11:29:04 CST 2004

I've used Ontrack Recovery. $100 ish, works excellently. I've never seen a
free utility, you can try the Ontrack software for free- it shows you what it
can recover, you just have to pay to actually recover!

Regards

Dan

"Brad Pears" wrote:

> Are there any good free utilities out there that anyone has used that will
> allow you to recover/salvage data from a hard disk that has had it's
> partition removed?
>
> Basically I am looking for a tool that can read the HD at the lowest level
> regardless of the OS/partitions etc...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
>
>

Joep
Fri Dec 10 17:36:51 CST 2004

DiskPatch 2.0 for partition recovery: http://www.diydatarecovery.nl,
http://www.diydatarecovery.com

Don
Mon Dec 13 11:38:08 CST 2004

Brad Pears wrote:
> Are there any good free utilities out there that anyone has used that will
> allow you to recover/salvage data from a hard disk that has had it's
> partition removed?
>
> Basically I am looking for a tool that can read the HD at the lowest level
> regardless of the OS/partitions etc...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
>
I don't think you'll find a useful free utility. However, check
www.runtime.org for their Get Data Back offerings. I've used the NTFS
version on a hard drive that the vendor's diagnostic said "it was fini".
GDB worked wonders.
don