HELP!! Data Recovery Questions

[comradeboris]

Hey all,
I have a 200gb drive that I have hooked externally to my laptop that has about 22k mp3s and what not on it......well I decided yesterday to take it to a friends house that has a large raid5 array set up to back it up in case anything ever happened to it. Well Murphy's Law kicked in and as soon as windows2000 started booting up on his box it went directly into the disk scanning mode and was complaining about corrupted files....WTF. We let diskscan run though and after gettting into windows we discovered that somehow nearly 12k of my mp3s had been deleted. I have tried to run several file recovery programs like Runtimes' GetDataBack and Restorer2000. These programs are showing from what I can tell that only about ~14k of those mp3s can be recovered. Any thoughts or similar experiences??? Its not a huge deal to lose the music...that can be reloaded somewhat but I had painstakingly tagged and organized all those files..........

 

[draksia]

You can try file scavenger most people seem to have very good luck with it including my self.


http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm

You will need some where to write the recovered files to in this case you friends raid will work great.

Good luck.

 

[ciscokid454]

what os do you normally have that usb drive running on?
if it's above 2k and you're using ntfs, this is what happens, the format between 2k and XP is totally different.
fat32 shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Chix4mat]

I have used Easy Recovery, and it works *real* well. It's been able to recover more than I every thought possible. It really depends on what areas of your disk are affected though.

I back up every single MP3 on my system, to DVD. If you have a DVD burner, it may be a wise investment to back them up that way.

Good luck.