We recorded our wedding with a video recorder that took the little small dvd disks. but when we went to view it on the recorder, the screen said disk error. there was a prompt to repair the damage and we said yes but it said it couldnt repair the damage. we dont even have a clue how the thing could have been damaged to begin with. Does anyone know of an inexpensive data recovery service. we are hearing quotes of upwards of 0+.

I use a [Toshiba 1GB] compact flash card in my Nikon D2X and the first time I went to download the images, to my horror, there was nothing there. I was able to playback the images on my camera at first, but now, I no longer can. I know a compact flash uses memory on a chip as upposed to a hard drive, which stores data magnetically on a disc. But is it still possible to recover data from one?

I recently installed an remote start, then suddenly my battery was completely dead a week later, I replaced the battery and had the car tested and it turns out there is a power drain on the battery when the car is off, the guys at Advanced Auto Parts said that it was probably the remote start sucking power when the car was off, so I went back to the remote start place and they said the drain wasn’t the remote start, they unplugged the "backup" fuse and the drain disappeared, does anyone know what the backup fuse is for???

and ummm im using DVDs not a hard drive cz i dont have one, so how does it work? i need everytime to back up on a new disc?! doesnt make sense to me :S

Trying to recover some files that disappeared after playing with partitions.

The laptop hard drive seems to have a lot of bad sectors however and is probably damaged. (Problems copying files, slow, etc.)

Should I try to to do data recovery first or try to fix the damaged drive. Will fixing the bad sectors affect the data recovery software?

my daughter has a canon powershot and she was trying to re-set the time ad date. when it said "format" she clicked ‘yes’. it meant reformat the scadisk memory. there were pics of the last days of her 3 year old son, and his burial at sea. she is devistated. she sent it to a data recovery place but they could not do it because it was a low level format. does anyone know a place that can retrieve the pictures? thank you

I have an 80 Gb hard disk which had about 60 Gb of data and was formatted accidentally. After formatting, data was added to it. I now need to recover the previous 60 Gb of data. How can I recover this data and what data recovery software will do it?

i am looking to do data recovery work.

i am familiar with tools that are pre-installed prior to data loss.

however I am looking for a GUI tool that will run from CD so I can retreive data from clients hard-drives without having to install software to the pc.

installing can over-write data so is not a good idea.

i want to be able to pop in a cd, or usb key would do, then browse a drive and recover files to burn to dvd or cd.

then i can do a reinstall on the original drive or transfer files to a new pc.

I’ve been trying to get some files off a dead hard disk (i.e. one that reports RAW filesystem), using the data recovery software from http://www.datadoctor.in/. Unfortunately almost all files have failed to be recovered properly, even though the software has detected the structure of the directories, and the file names. The only files that seem to work are almost entirely within zip files.
Have I been doing something wrong?
Are there any alternative pieces of free software that would do a better job?

Thanks

I Need A famous and advanced Windows Data Recovery Software, I have downloaded most of the softwares but they do not detect the deleted folders, A folder has been deleted from my Hard Disk, and i am unable to recover that folder, Is there any Data Recovery Software which can detect and recover all kind(format) of files and big size folders? Please guide me.

Hi, I am looking for means (data recovery tool or any other method) by which I can recover data from a hard disk which was encrypted using Safeguard Easy from Utimaco. The data is absolutely important to me. The OS (XP) was formatted and safeguard reinstalled. However the old partitions remain beyond capture. If you can please help me in this, I would remain ever grateful.

My hard drive just decided to fail. the thing still works, but windows doesn’t even recognize it anymore. A friend of mine worked on it for all of five seconds and discovered that the file system read RAW instead of the original NTFS I formatted it with. I’ve search the internet for data recovery software, however, the price tag doesn’t make things any easier. I don’t want to be cheap or anything, I’ll pay the money…but I’m wondering is there a freeware or open source program out there that will do everything that the retail data recovery program can do?
For example: there’s a program called GetDataBack that will restore my files…but is there a free program that will do all GetDataBack (or equivalent) can do?
I’m just curious..
Thanks If at all possible I would like to recover with the directory structure intact…

I want complete details about system recovery disc and recovery console. I have to format my complete hard disc. all the data will be erased. Will system recovery disc also be erased or not. Actually, where does this system recovery disc will be saved on my computer and how much space is required. after formatting my hard disc, how can i recover all my data through the system recovery disc?

I recently lost around half of my files and data due to the Disk Cleanup Utility on my PC. I would like to know which data recovery utility is best for recovering all of my files. I lost things like movies, music, program files, etc. Which program will recover them and put them back exactly where they were-the way they were? Price is no object for the programs. 10 points for the best answer.
Also, I have already tried System Restore and it did not work.

Has anyone ever done data recovery from an (external) hard disk?
There are some service/shops that do this, even if the disk is broken in two (mine is just not working somewhere in the power connection), but I don’t know the cost.
Have anyone do it so he can tell an estimated cost?

So I woke up 4 months ago (on 15/7, I still remember!) to find my USB Hard Disk empty. I took it to a technical and he couldn’t do anything but format the hard disk. Any Ideas? Because that data was really dear.
The technie guy used it on another computer, and I tried it on both the laptop and the desktop, so yeah, I did try it on more than one computer.

i was installing linux, but by mistake i chose entire device for installing, due to this my previous OS (windows XP) is deleted and cant install linux also.
But when i reinstalled XP, than only C and D drive is showing. when i am clicking on D drive it requires format the drive.
Plz tell me HOW can i recover my all data, i ave some important data.? Should i format first before running recovery tool or after format.

This was my secondary drive with my music and text files. The drive was not pried open and makes no sound while the computer is running. The drive does not appear in My Computer, nor in Disk Management. It is a one month old Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb. It has about 100Gb of data on it. My PC runs Vista. It will probably require "clean room" processing. Thanks for your help.

Lets say I run a full/diff backup via Backup Exec on my systems to tape and then I run Robocopy to run an offsite backup to a remote disk. Then I decide to run a Windows Backup just because Im paranoid.. will the archive bits get mixed up and make the backup solutions lose track of what really needs to get backed up? Or does each solution have their own "log"?

I have to back up personal data and create recovery discs. So its it like DVD discs or what?

I’d like to swap out the hard drive on my Compaq Persario desktop computer, running Windows XP. The physical part of it I can handle, but is the software end of it as easy as puting my reformat/recovery disc in the disc drive and then booting up on that to load everything I need to have it run correctly? Also, are there any special considerations to think of when looking for the replacemet hard drive?

Thanks!!

I want to wipe all the data offf my PC as i am selling it soon and only have the vista recovery disc that i got with the PC. Can i wipe everything off with this?

If not, what can i do with it? and how do i wipe all the stuff off it so its like brand new?

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