Spinrite has saved me a few times. I haven't needed it lately. The one
thing that Spinrite does or did required was that you boot from a clean
copy of DOS so there is nothing to interfere with Spinrite operation. I
if you download Spinrite from the web site and burn a CD there will be a
copy of DOS on the CD to boot from. I forget all the details on what it
does but when it analyzes the drive it makes multiple passes. The number
of passes can be selected. If data is to be recovered it takes the best
matches from the passes.
Larry
On 08/06/2016 04:21 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
No, but I'll look into it tomorrow morning. Anything that's that old may
work better, such as the difference between modern degraggers and the old Intel
defragger that came with Win95. That one does a 100% defrag and compaction in
just one pass, but you have to use it in SAFE mode.
The freeware ones I've looked at can't recover a single graphics file,
and just a handful of PDF documents that were not saved in folders. The ones
that require you to buy a license prior to recovering anything show lots of
graphics and document files, but the one that lets you recover a small amount
as a demo could not recover a single one intact.
I'm going to copy all the images from the cameras to see what can be
found there.
Did you try Spinrite it has been around since the early 90s.
https://www.grc.com/default.htm
On 08/06/2016 03:39 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Well, it finally happened. Three weeks ago there was a power
glitch here when shutting down the one laptop, and the result was that
the directory of my external hard drive was corrupted. I've tried the
demo versions of a number of fairly powerful recovery software packages,
only to learn repeatedly that although a large number of JPG, Tif/TIFF,
BMP, and other file types are recognised, they are beyond recovery. Or
so they tell me.
I'm at the point where I'm reasonably convinced that the data
I've been storing on this drive is lost, and a lot of that was my
photos of many years plus PDF copies of papers that were being used for
various projects. Fortunately, the files for active projects have been
stored on the laptops or the desk computer, and files for electronics
projects are stored on the desk computer, one of which was nearing
completion.
Looking for drive recovery software by way of online searches is
probably not conclusive, so before I go to the final step and format the
drive I'd like to hear if there is any software out there in cyberland
that can do the job better than what I've used so far.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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