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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."
I'm not a pro in this department although I've saved a lot of partial data from hard drives for some friends (I'll be very interested in these comments).
No kidding; I haven't done any math courses and I'm a working programmer. I just code all day retrieving shit from the database through some SELECT shit FROM BigPile and load some crap into the database INSERT INTO BigPile(shit) VALUES('lots of shit'). That seems to do the trick. Obviously this kind of programming is too advanced to my boss, so I'm considered somewhat of an expert in my office, (or I think so anyway...).
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
I dunno about a lot of the geeks on here, but my personal pr0n collection is definitely the most prized in my drive family :) IMO those once in a lifetime shots you get of your friends drunk at a party, showing off their boobs, so you can tease them for the rest of their lives.. Honestly, is worth backing up more than any work I spent a couple days on, that I personally could easily reproduce.