Format Data Recovery Software
can i get my data with a data recovery software?
Hi
one of my harddisk has got corruoted. It comes in my computer but when I open it, it asks for formatting it. i have important data on it.
can i get my data with a data recovery software?
I had a problem like that a few years ago. Suddenly, I could no longer read a hard drive which included some key information. I tried some products but to no avail, and I took it to CompUSA which charged me $99 and then couldn’t do anything either. (They were nice enough to refund my money.)
I went to another PC shop that advertised that it did data recovery among its other things (sales, service, networks, etc.), but when I got there, I realized that they didn’t have any experts in data recovery — all they had was a fancy software program. They were able to get some of the data by interfacing the drive with their computer (the problem was in a connection somewhere, but they couldn’t figure out which one), but they lost the folder structure, and halfway through, they changed their pricing structure (originally they said $99, then they called and said that they were at $600 and about halfway through!). Screw them!
Finally, I went to a company that specialized in data recovery, Cherry Systems (no, it’s not porn, that really is the name). Their minimum fee was $360, but they got every last piece of data in there, and they kept the folder structure intact so I knew where and what everything was. They had specialized techniques to get data from working hard drives, difficult hard drives, and even hard drives that could no longer be accessed. Some of their recovery methods were software and some were hardware methods, so they really dug deep.
My guess is that if you can’t read the hard drive at all, and the computer wants to reformat it, you won’t be able to get at it with a software solution. After all, the software solution requires the computer to interface with the hard drive, which it isn’t doing.
My advice is that if this is really important, take it to a real data recovery professional. You will pay (!) for this service, but don’t go to your local neighborhood PC shop which will pull some type of bait-and-switch on you.
Good luck!