RE: On the back of the favorite tools thread,...

2009-08-05 Thread Ziots, Edward
Also there is a great article on the SQLMAG.com site for free SQL tools, Instadoc 102244. For those that are doing SQL and want the list email me offline and I will send you a word document with all the tools in the list. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I,

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2009-08-04 Thread tony patton
Testdisk, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk I'm always playing with the partitions at home and it's saved me from an ear bashing from the wife when her photos are gone. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com

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2009-08-04 Thread Gene Giannamore
Never gotten a partition back, I have used getback (ntfs and fat versions 2 and 3) http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-products.htm, to recover data from multiple formatted disks, damaged disks (bad sectors and read errors), and other problems. I consider it very slow, since it seems to

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2009-08-04 Thread Peter van Houten
Easy Recovery. Try before buy: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-downloads/#data -- Peter van Houten -Original Message- From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: On the back of the

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2009-08-04 Thread Richard Stovall
I've recovered several deleted partitions using Active Undelete Enterprise. http://www.active-undelete.com/ Don't know if it'll solve this particular problem, however. -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 04,

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2009-08-04 Thread Hart, Robert
Try Runtimes Raid Reconstructor. I used it once on a Raid5, it was a hard and long process. No way will I say it will work in your situation. I had to tell it the order of drives and it still found multiple raids in the MFT and it was trial and error on which one was correct.

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2009-08-04 Thread Phillip Partipilo
+1 on Easyrecovery. It's some kind of magic, its saved tail here several times. Seems to manage to access NTFS structures directly without going through the OS - a few instances, Windows has said a disk was blank and needed to be formatted, and Easyrecovery recovered all the data. Well, the

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2009-08-04 Thread Gavin Wilby
+1 Used it a number of times successfully. Gavin Wilby. MCSE. MCTS. MCITP. ACSP. MSN: gavst...@hotmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Phillip Partipilo wrote: +1 on Easyrecovery. It's some kind of magic, its saved tail here several times. Seems

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2009-08-03 Thread Maglinger, Paul
To pound on hard drives specifically, I like to use iometer. http://www.iometer.org/ -Original Message- From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On the back of the favorite tools thread,... Does anyone

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2009-08-03 Thread Jeff Bunting
I've used this one before: http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm I used it to test a specific problem I was having on my home PC, so don't have experience with all of its features, but you can get a 30 day test drive, Jeff On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Gavin Wilby gavin.wi...@gmail.com

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2009-08-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Gavin Wilbygavin.wi...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here have any decent stress test tools? For *our* usage, these might be better termed confidence tests than stress tests, but: For RAM, we use MemTest86 and/or the Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic. For CPU,

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2009-08-03 Thread Brian Desmond
There is an app memtest something that is an ISO IOMeter is free I/O load gen There used to be a tool called cpustres or cpustress I the Platform SDK which could max out CPUs but I don't see it in the version I have. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active

Re: On the back of the favorite tools thread,...

2009-08-03 Thread Don Kuhlman
Anyone have any ideas for rebuilding the MFT after corrupting the primary and backup version of it on a hard drive for a Toshiba laptop? Hoping that if the MFT is gone (both versions) the data is still there and may be recoverable somehow? Thanks Don K - Original Message From:

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2009-08-03 Thread John Cook
Easus partition manager John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud - Original Message - From: Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon Aug 03 16:44:36