OT: 2.5" hdd data recovery

[Meng Cheah]

Ralph Ellis wrote:

>I don't know if it could help but SpinRite is a program with a strong success 
>rate with date recovery but you would have to connect the drive so some sort 
>of IDE controller. See
>www.grc.com
>Good luck
>  
>
Has anyone personal experience of data recovery with SpinRite?
I want to know the general consensus with regard to data recovery before 
spending the money.

A couple of my former colleagues have used it for checking drives; they 
liked it.
There was a drive which while being formatted, hung.
After a couple of hours, the box was rebooted.
I tried SpinRite among other utilities, nothing worked.
The drive was "fubar"ed.

Thanks in advance.

Meng Cheah




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