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What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?
Life2Death writes "I've been working with computers for a long time, and every once and a while someone close to me has a drive go belly up on them. I know there are big, expensive recovery houses that specialize in mission-critical data recovery, like if your house blew up and you have millions of files you need or something, but for the local IT group, what do you guys use? Given that most people are on NTFS (Windows XP) by the numbers, what would you use? I found a ton of tools when I googled, and everyone and their brother suggests something else, so I want to know what software 'just works' on most recoveries of bad, but partially working hard drives. Free software always has a warm spot in my heart."
Lemon juice and heat!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
No the pro install nightly backup tools on the laptops. At least they do on mine.The backup software then uses heuristic algorithms to start the backups when the laptop is being used for meeting presentations in front of many people.
I think you're confusing BoFH with Pros.
Bah - learn to make house calls to fix computers. It gets you laid (as in : having sex with a real woman.)
The trick is, pay attention to the computer for a while (ignoring the woman.) Then set it off doing something that's going to take a half hour or so (defragging the hard drive or backing up to an external) and explain - well, that's going to take an hour ... what can we do that will keep me busy while that thing works? Then the clothes start flying off.
Hey, it could happen!
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
I just file a FOIA request with the NSA for my own data. I can usually remember the redacted bits with some context. If I need help rebuilding my iTunes library I can just subpoena that from the RIAA. You're welcome.
His name was Robert Paulsen.