Jeffbx
08-30-2002, 04:48 AM
OK, this software has been so good to me I had to share with you guys -
I had a guy in the office whose hard drive died on him. Couldn't boot it, couldn't access it from another machine, nothing. Norton couldn't even see that it was installed in the system. Of course he had critical data on it, so I went in search of recovery utilities.
After trying a bunch, I bought Winternals Disk Commander (http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/diskcommander.asp). It was a little pricy at $300, but let me tell you it found & recovered every single file on that drive. After we recovered the files we ran hardware diags on the drive & it was indeed totally dead, but the Winternals software was able to recover everything.
Had the same thing happen a few months later - performed nicely again.
Yesterday one of the VPs came to me with a sales guy's laptop. The guy had quit & they needed some files off of the machine, but it wouldn't boot. I had a look, and he had formatted the drive & removed the partitions. The VP looked like he was going to sh**, but I said, "Fear not! For I have the intreped and powerful Disk Commander!" <dun-dun-duuuuuun!>
OK, I didn't really say that, but I popped the hard drive into my laptop as a 2nd drive, fired up disk commander, and 10 minutes later was pulling all the files off of his laptop & dumping them onto the network (including his new offer letters & his job searching history, heh heh heh).
The moral of the story: if you need a really really good recovery utility, buy Disk Commander. Plus, if you're quitting a job & erasing your data on the way out, use a wiping utility & don't think a format or repartitioning will hide anything.
I had a guy in the office whose hard drive died on him. Couldn't boot it, couldn't access it from another machine, nothing. Norton couldn't even see that it was installed in the system. Of course he had critical data on it, so I went in search of recovery utilities.
After trying a bunch, I bought Winternals Disk Commander (http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/diskcommander.asp). It was a little pricy at $300, but let me tell you it found & recovered every single file on that drive. After we recovered the files we ran hardware diags on the drive & it was indeed totally dead, but the Winternals software was able to recover everything.
Had the same thing happen a few months later - performed nicely again.
Yesterday one of the VPs came to me with a sales guy's laptop. The guy had quit & they needed some files off of the machine, but it wouldn't boot. I had a look, and he had formatted the drive & removed the partitions. The VP looked like he was going to sh**, but I said, "Fear not! For I have the intreped and powerful Disk Commander!" <dun-dun-duuuuuun!>
OK, I didn't really say that, but I popped the hard drive into my laptop as a 2nd drive, fired up disk commander, and 10 minutes later was pulling all the files off of his laptop & dumping them onto the network (including his new offer letters & his job searching history, heh heh heh).
The moral of the story: if you need a really really good recovery utility, buy Disk Commander. Plus, if you're quitting a job & erasing your data on the way out, use a wiping utility & don't think a format or repartitioning will hide anything.