What Data Recovery Tools Do the Pros Use?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 2, 2009 @02:19AM from the besides-waterboarding dept.

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."

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Ordinary Kitchen Stuff by Mikkeles · 2009-06-02 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Lemon juice and heat!

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Re:Pros avoid having to use data recovery tools. by jumpingfred · 2009-06-02 02:48 · Score: 5, Funny

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.