Hard disk tools... After blue screen of D!

disneyjoe7
disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
edited October 2008 in The Clubhouse
In view of pass events Father in-law in all, when I lost my 250g drive with NTFS file system I'm a bit lost at pulling anything off it. So since this was an old issue I since redo drive I lost lots of pictures which I could kick myself now for. The trouble is I don't have boot-able disk that sees this file type, so I'm a bit lost at this point if I see it. Is there link or file someone can send me so I don't have this issue in the future?

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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2008
    I may have answered my own question Google is my friend, but if anyone knows any tricks please share.

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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited October 2008
    NTFS4DOS can be a pain to work with, but I have used it successfully in the past. Good luck.

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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited October 2008
    I keep a SLAX thumbdrive around just for this sort of thing.
    http://www.slax.org/

    It's an idiot-proof stripped down linux distribution. Just unzip it to a thumbdrive, follow the directions to make it bootable and set your motherboard to boot off USB. Works every time. Once you copy all your files over the network (or over to the thumbdrive), you can nuke the harddrive and start over.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2008
    McLoki wrote: »
    NTFS4DOS can be a pain to work with, but I have used it successfully in the past. Good luck.

    Michael


    I like yours its small and looks "Floppable", but not all computers have floppy drives today.

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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2008
    unc2701 wrote: »
    I keep a SLAX thumbdrive around just for this sort of thing.
    http://www.slax.org/

    It's an idiot-proof stripped down linux distribution. Just unzip it to a thumbdrive, follow the directions to make it bootable and set your motherboard to boot off USB. Works every time. Once you copy all your files over the network (or over to the thumbdrive), you can nuke the harddrive and start over.


    Your's looks really sweet, but not a floppy thing but...............




    Kex, I understand what you did, but not what I was looking for.

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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited October 2008
    You can also throw Slax on a CD; most computers starting around 2000 will boot from CD and most from the last few years will boot from USB, too. Just hit F1 (or whatever your computers says immediately after you turn it on) to enter the BIOS menu and set the boot order to check CD or USB first.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited October 2008
    Is there data you need to retrieve?
    Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
    Thanks
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2008
    Ok if I used this at the time to boot up and remove anything I wish pictures or what not. The problem at that time even if I use 2 hard drives a sata 250g and a small 6 gig which I hold some old tax records but too small to move the 10g of pictures I had. I since reformatted, and rebuilt it with a 80g second drive too help in this propose. So would I be able to format a drive with that as the 80g was used in a Tivo and wasn't Fat32 or NTFS.

    But that is light years ahead of what I had at the time. NTFS seems solid, but when it fails its ugly and quick.

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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2008
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Is there data you need to retrieve?


    No Ben, this is the computer which died on me a few months ago and I lost those picture but since redid I think they are gone gone gone. Just looking for some ideas in the future if I needed to recovery data again.

    Just with a death in the family some old pictures came to mind which are gone for good. Just hate to have to relive that over again.

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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited October 2008
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    No Ben, this is the computer which died on me a few months ago and I lost those picture but since redid I think they are gone gone gone. Just looking for some ideas in the future if I needed to recovery data again.

    Just with a death in the family some old pictures came to mind which are gone for good. Just hate to have to relive that over again.

    They're never gone,gone, gone unless your new install actually wrote data over them. There are some excellent data-recovery tools for around $40-50, and once in a great while, this site features a freebie version of the best one I've played with: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

    the app I'm referring to is this one- http://www.easeus.com/, and it is very fast and efficient.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2008
    Kex wrote: »
    A neighbor of mine used this free software. He said he recovered everything he had accidentally lost. You should know pretty quickly what it will let you retrieve ...

    I haven't tried it, so I can't tell you how good it really is, but he thought it was amazing.

    PC Inspector:
    http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1


    Well that software is short of Amazing. And what I can say about my lost drive redone with the pictures. It was the pictures which were part of the problem took like a day or so to rescan drive for lost files, but I happy to report some 30-50% of the pictures where saved. Names and file size is wrong as all report 1.43mb it found every pictures some IE files I'm sure but 15K photos with the name clusterxxxxx.jpg

    It will be slow, but some lived. Thank you for the tip. :)

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    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited October 2008
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    Well that software is short of Amazing. And what I can say about my lost drive redone with the pictures. It was the pictures which were part of the problem took like a day or so to rescan drive for lost files, but I happy to report some 30-50% of the pictures where saved. Names and file size is wrong as all report 1.43mb it found every pictures some IE files I'm sure but 15K photos with the name clusterxxxxx.jpg

    It will be slow, but some lived. Thank you for the tip. :)

    Nice. :)
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