I used file scavenger with good luck. It is a winders utility and
costs $35. But if the freeware does not do the trick, try it. I
think you can see the files on the download without buying. But to
recover, you have to buy it.
I used to me able to recover a hosed winders mbr in nothing flat
without losing all the files, but I forgot the utility/method. Isn't
it a choice in fdisk? One lab I taught in hosed the mbr regularly
for some reason. I never figured out why, I would just recover the
mbr and use it as a teaching opportunity. After the first few, most
of the students just did it themselves.
Testdisk, Undelete Plus, Recuva, and Restoration are some of the
freeware file recover utilities out there. We use Recuva regularly
and it seems to do a pretty good job.
The fact that your machine is not recognizing the file system
suggests that the MBR is hosed. If that's the case, you're probably
not going to be able to recover anything.
Dan (who has $1,000s of recovery software and tools at work, but has
to hash everything going in and out when he uses it)
On Feb 20, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
> Anybody know of a free hard drive recovery tool? I am still
trying to get some files off my old computer, have one of the hard
drives from it hooked up via USB and it sees the drive but says the
drive needs to be formatted, probably problem from old computer.
>
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