This is a 120 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 hard drive from a desktop computer.
The files I did not save are photos and songs. They are on the hard drive, but were never backed up to a disc.
When you say, "unsaved files," do you mean that they weren't saved to the HD, or just that they weren't saved to a backup copy? Because if it's the former, then they \are\ gone, and this is a good opportunity to learn to backup on a regular basis. (Yeah … it's never worked for me, either. 8-D) But if it's the latter, there's software available for you to go hunting for the data yourself, and it's available at a surprisingly reasonable price.
First, are you using a Mac or a Windows box? I can offer you firsthand experience with the former, but only research with the latter.
For my Macs, Prosoft's Data Rescue has NEVER let me down. I actually just used it yesterday for the first time in a few months — and it didn't take long, since it's designed to be \very\ intuitive.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php?PHPSESSID=cf62c6ffc80c1a211e4c532c0b24a1d4
I've been using it for about five years now, in both the DR Classic and DR II incarnations, and the one disappointment I've had was with a single folder of files that I was trying to rescue off a partition that some ungodly Norton data recovery app had hosed completely — just wiped clean. (I sent them a firmly-worded but polite letter pointing out the irony of this situation, only to recieve \the single rudest\ reply I've ever recieved from a CSR — I mean, that woman was just plain \hostile\. They subsequently got moved from my "On Notice" board to my "Dead to Me" board.) Aside from that one folder (which was anguishing at the time, but ultimately not a big deal — I just lost some ultimately irrelevant e'mail that I hadn't backed up), DR has come back with everything I've sent it out to fetch. I worked on my HD last summer for a week trying to recover data that had been hosed by VileFault — I mean, FileVault ("Dead to Me"). It had been a couple of years since I'd done a full restore of the drive, and it managed to recover e'mail and photos from all the way back in 2003 that I had long ago deleted — stuff I'd forgot about completely, since I no longer even know the senders. It's VERY good.
What I really like about DR II, aside from the intuitive interface, is the fact that it requires you to recover the lost files to another drive. In other words, if you're trying to recover Drive X, it requires you to recover the files to Drive Y, the thinking being that if Drive Y is fine, but Drive X is corrupt, then you SHOULDN'T recover to it. Also helpful is the fact that you can try before you buy — it lets you scan your drive and recover one file with the demo version. This way, you can at least find out if your data even \is\ recoverable without making the investment ($99), only to find out that it's gone to that great bit bucket in the sky.
Now, as for That \Other\ OS. ;-} As I said, I can't speak for this firsthand, but Prosoft now has RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC Version 2 (they had DR only for Macs when I started using them).
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc_info.php?PHPSESSID=cf62c6ffc80c1a211e4c532c0b24a1d4
From the link above, it appears to be the exact same kind of app — you can preview the files before restoring them, and you restore them to an external drive. It recovers Microsoft Windows file systems including Windows Vista, 2003, XP, NT, 2000, ME, 98, 95, 3.x and DOS, and costs $129, though a trial version is also available.
(I can also tell you that if you decide to use either of these, Prosoft's CSRs are fast and friendly — they've made it to my "Fantasies" board. 8-D)
Best of luck!
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use recuva
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Hello,
If you didn't save the files then they're gone. If you were using MS Word the bckup files created automatically by Word, have the filename extension WBK.
Boot from the Windows CD. Go into recovery console and copy what you need to a 3.5" floppy or jump drive.
Good Luck!
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last time i got same probelm ..try connecting this hard drive with other one as master n slave and try to recover some data from there ..
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When you say, "unsaved files," do you mean that they weren't saved to the HD, or just that they weren't saved to a backup copy? Because if it's the former, then they \are\ gone, and this is a good opportunity to learn to backup on a regular basis. (Yeah … it's never worked for me, either. 8-D) But if it's the latter, there's software available for you to go hunting for the data yourself, and it's available at a surprisingly reasonable price.
First, are you using a Mac or a Windows box? I can offer you firsthand experience with the former, but only research with the latter.
For my Macs, Prosoft's Data Rescue has NEVER let me down. I actually just used it yesterday for the first time in a few months — and it didn't take long, since it's designed to be \very\ intuitive.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php?PHPSESSID=cf62c6ffc80c1a211e4c532c0b24a1d4
I've been using it for about five years now, in both the DR Classic and DR II incarnations, and the one disappointment I've had was with a single folder of files that I was trying to rescue off a partition that some ungodly Norton data recovery app had hosed completely — just wiped clean. (I sent them a firmly-worded but polite letter pointing out the irony of this situation, only to recieve \the single rudest\ reply I've ever recieved from a CSR — I mean, that woman was just plain \hostile\. They subsequently got moved from my "On Notice" board to my "Dead to Me" board.) Aside from that one folder (which was anguishing at the time, but ultimately not a big deal — I just lost some ultimately irrelevant e'mail that I hadn't backed up), DR has come back with everything I've sent it out to fetch. I worked on my HD last summer for a week trying to recover data that had been hosed by VileFault — I mean, FileVault ("Dead to Me"). It had been a couple of years since I'd done a full restore of the drive, and it managed to recover e'mail and photos from all the way back in 2003 that I had long ago deleted — stuff I'd forgot about completely, since I no longer even know the senders. It's VERY good.
What I really like about DR II, aside from the intuitive interface, is the fact that it requires you to recover the lost files to another drive. In other words, if you're trying to recover Drive X, it requires you to recover the files to Drive Y, the thinking being that if Drive Y is fine, but Drive X is corrupt, then you SHOULDN'T recover to it. Also helpful is the fact that you can try before you buy — it lets you scan your drive and recover one file with the demo version. This way, you can at least find out if your data even \is\ recoverable without making the investment ($99), only to find out that it's gone to that great bit bucket in the sky.
Now, as for That \Other\ OS. ;-} As I said, I can't speak for this firsthand, but Prosoft now has RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC Version 2 (they had DR only for Macs when I started using them).
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_pc_info.php?PHPSESSID=cf62c6ffc80c1a211e4c532c0b24a1d4
From the link above, it appears to be the exact same kind of app — you can preview the files before restoring them, and you restore them to an external drive. It recovers Microsoft Windows file systems including Windows Vista, 2003, XP, NT, 2000, ME, 98, 95, 3.x and DOS, and costs $129, though a trial version is also available.
(I can also tell you that if you decide to use either of these, Prosoft's CSRs are fast and friendly — they've made it to my "Fantasies" board. 8-D)
Best of luck!
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If you didn't save the file to the hard drive it's gone. Anything you were working on would be kept in the computer's ram. But once the computer is turned off, ram is erased. Try this free software.
http://www.cbltech.com/data-recovery/software/recover-lost-data/
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