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Should I reformat a hard drive before using a data recovery program?

My old hard drive is corrupted and I want to salvage the files on it using a data recovery program I’ve downloaded. However getting the program to read it is difficult. Do I need to reformat the hard drive? When I go to reformat it says this will erase all data on the disk, but according to other websites I’ve read it should be fine and I should still be able to salvage files. Which is correct?

If you do a full format, all the data on the disk will be overwritten with the formatting data – and you will lose the data you want to retrieve.

There is a type of formatting called “quick format” but that erases all the folder data, and that means you will have even more problems finding the data you want.

You say getting the program to read it is difficult. If the hard drive is failing, then you will have enormous problems getting any program to work right.

If the only problem is corrupted folder structures, then a quick format *might* work to erase all of the corrupted data, leaving the other data. Then your data recovery program would have to scan the entire hard drive.

I use the free Recuva program from Piriform to recover data, but I don’t know how it would work in your situation. Recuva has the ability to scan all the hard drive sectors, it is an option. If you can get it to work, you will need another drive to have a place to copy the selected data.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Wikipedia article about Recuva:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuva

There are programs available that will read the data directly off the sectors of the hard drive and present it in hexadecimal format, but that doesn’t mean you can make enough sense out of the data to be able to recover it. The better programs also cost money.

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Save your lost data with data recovery software

Data recovery software is software that can recover data that has been lost due to hard drive damage, deletion of files accidentally or general computer corruption. The tools in the software can, in most cases, recover files from a flash stick also. Unfortunately, there may be a time in a computer user’s life where data recovery is necessary. Loosing files or deleting them on accident is a fact of life. It will happen and when it does you should consider data recovery software.

Not all files are actually lost or deleted. Some just become corrupt. In this case, data recover software can actually fix the file so it can be accessed again. Files such as Word documents or PowerPoint presentations that have been corrupted and will not open may benefit from data recovery software. There’s nothing like having to give a big presentation at work and not being able to open the file you worked so hard on.

Before you loose any valuable files due to a hard drive crash, PC hardware diagnostics should be taken into consideration. To keep a PC running at it’s best will include running diagnostics on the hardware. The hardware includes things such as the CPU, the motherboard, the memory and the hard drives. PC hardware diagnostics can detect things like bad video performance, modem problems, game controller performance, CD and DVD Recording performance and audio problems.

If your computer’s hardware is not running at it’s best, the software that is installed on it will not perform at it’s best either. Programs could run slow or quit operating all together Basically, a computer that has all of it’s hardware running at their best will produce software that performs as it should.

Data recovery softwares and PC hardware diagnostics can be ran on all platforms of Windows, Unix and Macintosh. Be sure to check so see that the software you are considering can be used on your specific operating system. Hardware diagnostic and data recovery software may be more difficult to use for a beginner PC user. Be sure that you understand all that may be involved to use the software correctly and more important, be sure that you understand fully how to recover or correct data or hardware issues. You may cause yourself more problems in the long run if you attempt to fix issues with out full knowledge.

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Can someone suggest how to perform USB data recovery?

I use my Apple iPod Shuffle as a memory stick. It was working fine yesterday. Today, it asks to be formatted. Last thing that I did systems-wise was Windows Update, Java update and a couple of reboots while the stick was plugged in.

I don’t know how successful you’ve been so far, but the program that you mention appears to be a load of cack to me. Try MISPBO Ultimate Data Recovery, from the link below, and see if that’s any more use.

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