Ocha Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 I am trying to get old pictures and documents off an old hard drive for a friend. I told him no problem, and then went to work on it. I was getting really wired feed back from it. So, I ask him if something happen to hard drive or damage or something. He said, maybe, just maybe it over heated because there weren't enough air flow to it. Though, I've never seen his computer, that could be the problem.So, my question is: Is there a way of seeing if the hard drive is damaged? I heard of the software that comes with windows xp and I guess Vista too (im using xp though) that can see if there is any damages to hard drives or hardware. I think it's called..... CMM or CCM (i forgot, but it's call) "Computer Management" within Control Panel and then Administrative Tools. I think it's "Disk Management". Does anyone know?If final, is there any programs anyone knows of for recovering lost data. So I can get my friend's information back off this hard drive. I have tired "FreeUndelete" (I think) and "Recover Lost Data 2007" Both couldn't do anything for this hard drive. FreeUndelete said the format of the hard drive was Raw and that there was nothing to recover and Recover Lost Data show the drive as two hard drives, I think one was Fat16 and the other was Fat32 with no size of the hard drive. But I Know the hard drive was NTFS, so I don't know what to do anymore. Is there any other really good programs out there to recover data off a hard drive???Thank you,Ocha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 To check the drive RIGHT click on My Computer and click on Manage. Then click on Disk Management. Click on the disk you are interested in, click Properties then tools. The error checking options will then show.Regarding data recovery, lots of programs claim to do it, few are actually able to. One of the best I've used is Recuva click here but it is not perfect. There are commercial data recovery organisations but they are VERY expensive and there is no guarantee of success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashoverride Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 plug it into another computer as slave... and get the data... when doing it... copy the data dont cut it.. k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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