Wargasm
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rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttt... the sound of a drive reaching the end of it's life.
Booting up the computer and having all your profiles corrupted is another sign also ..
Right another Maxtor harddrive died in my system . Not maxtors fault i think (hope). After a few WD's and seagates we switched to Maxtor and so far only 4 dead HD's so far . Not a bad score . Why they die i dunno .. Need cooling ?? Maxtor says not . Tobe sure all my harddrives have extra cooling (double fans) mounted right onto the harddrive . Harddrive is attached to the upper metal front in the case so it can pass the heat to the case itself . The cd burner is mounter all the way 10 centimeters away from the HD.
Just writing this down incase someone thinks i do not know how to install a harddrive .
Guess my luck ends with harddrives even tho they never get hot .
Anyway's let's get to the point .. Since the whole harddrive was corrupted i installed a new harddrive (nother maxtor) and attached the old drive .. Not much i could recover and there was not much i needed to recover from it anyways (hello mr backup).
Cept that one little email i wanted back that holded some info i needed .
Test case . corrupted maxtor 40 Gb drive. one partition formatted 4 times from fat32 to ntfs and back
I first started with getdataback.. awfull program .. that people pay money for it .
Nother util is http://www.pcinspector.de . It's for free . And wow it was able to get some folders back in 100% working condition . Even was able to recover photo's from a format 2 years ago .
But still not the file i was looking for .
Virtual Lab from http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/trial/1mbfree.lasso
Now this is a powerfull program . I was able to retrieve the email . Cept it was corrupted and still not got it back . But i was impressed on how good it worked ! You can recover 1 meg for free wich is not much but still awesome if you really need to recover that one special file you deleted. The price for more data is reasonable . Granted when you just wiped the company's database and 200 angry persons are banging on your door everything is cheap hehehe
Nother fine util for the suffering people who work in the IT sector called techs and have to deal with users with high demands .
Booting up the computer and having all your profiles corrupted is another sign also ..
Right another Maxtor harddrive died in my system . Not maxtors fault i think (hope). After a few WD's and seagates we switched to Maxtor and so far only 4 dead HD's so far . Not a bad score . Why they die i dunno .. Need cooling ?? Maxtor says not . Tobe sure all my harddrives have extra cooling (double fans) mounted right onto the harddrive . Harddrive is attached to the upper metal front in the case so it can pass the heat to the case itself . The cd burner is mounter all the way 10 centimeters away from the HD.
Just writing this down incase someone thinks i do not know how to install a harddrive .
Guess my luck ends with harddrives even tho they never get hot .
Anyway's let's get to the point .. Since the whole harddrive was corrupted i installed a new harddrive (nother maxtor) and attached the old drive .. Not much i could recover and there was not much i needed to recover from it anyways (hello mr backup).
Cept that one little email i wanted back that holded some info i needed .
Test case . corrupted maxtor 40 Gb drive. one partition formatted 4 times from fat32 to ntfs and back
I first started with getdataback.. awfull program .. that people pay money for it .
Nother util is http://www.pcinspector.de . It's for free . And wow it was able to get some folders back in 100% working condition . Even was able to recover photo's from a format 2 years ago .
But still not the file i was looking for .
Virtual Lab from http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/trial/1mbfree.lasso
Now this is a powerfull program . I was able to retrieve the email . Cept it was corrupted and still not got it back . But i was impressed on how good it worked ! You can recover 1 meg for free wich is not much but still awesome if you really need to recover that one special file you deleted. The price for more data is reasonable . Granted when you just wiped the company's database and 200 angry persons are banging on your door everything is cheap hehehe
Nother fine util for the suffering people who work in the IT sector called techs and have to deal with users with high demands .