Comments on: Advanced Hard Drive Data Recovery Part 1

By: BlaGGah

BlaGGah — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:34:19 +0000

I have a hdd from my old desktop pc. I couldn’t log on anymore cause it was saying i had a damaged or corrupted file in the windows32 folder.. I couldn’t fix it, the pc doesn’t boot up properly due to damaged IDE connector on the motherboard. I got a new desktop pc, I wanna recover the files from the hdd but can’t seem to because the files were in folders on the desktop and not in other locations of the hard drive. Is there hope for me to recover those folders on the desktop?

By: SuperFlyFlippingA

SuperFlyFlippingA — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:34:20 +0000

It usually is recoverable from the desc you gave.

By: artman4444

artman4444 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:21:55 +0000

I’ve had problems where I’ve had HDD that weren’t able to boot Windows, but there is still data on the drive that I needed. What I usually do is what I call a “dummy boot”. You get another different computer that has a functioning HDD that can boot windows. PART 1

By: artman4444

artman4444 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:08:10 +0000

PART 2 Make sure the functioning HDD is on Master jumper setting, and take the non-working HDD and set that jumper to slave. WHen you boot windows, you have to choose the functioning Operating System on the good HDD, just after BIOS loads. YOu should be able to explore the bad HDD under My Computer, and copy the raw data and files from the bad HDD to the desktop of the good HDD…I’ve done this several times…

By: BlaGGah

BlaGGah — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:09:09 +0000

I’ve done that but i wasn’t able to access the folders on that was on the desktop of when the old hdd was in tact..

By: 1George2

1George2 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:43:47 +0000

Great! I think the presentation is great. Because of the in depth knowledge to be learned and because data recovery companies are pissed off as they think they are loosing money. That’s really bollocks. I wouldn’t spend hundreds of dollars anyway to recover my personal data.

By: peripatetikerQC

peripatetikerQC — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:57:52 +0000

highly interesting and relevant

as a computer scientist, I am always amazed by the complexity and engineering lying in the hardware layers

By: vox2007

vox2007 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:50:52 +0000

I had a stuck file once, I tried to delete it using all means, nothing worked. I did notice it did not have an ending to the file name like example: .exe .dsc etc. and it was showing up as 0kbs. I decided to do a fresh reinstall of windows XP home.

By: Dax47

Dax47 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:31:19 +0000

Nice tutorial. 10x.

btw, i got a HDD Samsung 160 sata II that won`t start. It just won`t. I shuted down the PC and after 1 minute i powered it on. But the hdd haven`t started. Don`t know why. Any advice, anyone ?

By: INFINITYYYOOO

INFINITYYYOOO — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:33:27 +0000

hi superfly ,do you have a website with more details ,or a book ? thank you a lot because my english knowldege cant follow you when you speak hehe, thanks man