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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Re:for fat and ntfs by Jurily · 2009-06-02 02:46 · Score: -1, Troll

If the drive cannot be mounted/connected (like if the drive electronics are fried) this program won't help you.
Umm, duh? Anyone thinking otherwise should not be here.
Oh, and the recovery process took about 10 hours for a 600 Gb partition. It was worth every second. Shame they don't make those for Linux.