I tried out spinrite when the drive died in my macbook and it had 1 file i needed. spinrite dragged me back to the days of ANSI splashscreens but sadly my drive was apparently too gone to be resurrected or do anything but cause spinrite to freeze the system. I tried spinrite on a functioning disk and it reported all was good. so far, by my score it's decrepit hard drives:1 spinrite:0. spinrites no questions asked money-back guarantee however worked very well! :)
-s On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian Mathis <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > One of my friends windows machine died today – boots up only half way > > through the windows splash screen and freezes. There is one file he > wants > > to recover out of it, but it seems to be suffering from hardware failure > > because attaching the disk via USB enclosure to another computer will > only > > let him load the USB mass storage device, and won’t go any further than > > that… > > > > So my question is … > > > > What are the software hard disk recovery applications that people like, > > which may save his file(s) and/or his dollars for him? > > > > Of course, free is awesome, but commercial might be ok too. > > > > Recuva is good and free, though your description indicates a hardware > failure, and no software can fix that. (Actually, maybe spinrite can > get it back). > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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