corrupted external harddrive

I have a corrupted external usb harddrive, looking for a free program that could pull the information off of it or any ideas in general for recovering the data. thanks!

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vCole

Pop it open and plug the drive directly into your machine.

bjaxx

nicklauscombs wrote:

I have a corrupted external usb harddrive, looking for a free program that could pull the information off of it or any ideas in general for recovering the data. thanks!

Don't know if spinrite is free, but if your that into getting the data off your hard drive the last thing you should be worried about is free.

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
Good luck

scheistermeister

Hiren's boot cd has some good tools for recovery on it. Also looking through some of the programs I have used and kept in the past (don't remember which ones were good and which were bad or is all of these are for data recovery) Diskpatch, MBR tool, Undisker. Every time I have to data recovery I can never remember what tool I liked or which ones were good.

nicklauscombs

bjaxx wrote:

nicklauscombs wrote:

I have a corrupted external usb harddrive, looking for a free program that could pull the information off of it or any ideas in general for recovering the data. thanks!

Don't know if spinrite is free, but if your that into getting the data off your hard drive the last thing you should be worried about is free.

http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
Good luck

It's not super critical data which is why I'm looking for free

nicklauscombs

scheistermeister wrote:

Hiren's boot cd has some good tools for recovery on it. Also looking through some of the programs I have used and kept in the past (don't remember which ones were good and which were bad or is all of these are for data recovery) Diskpatch, MBR tool, Undisker. Every time I have to data recovery I can never remember what tool I liked or which ones were good.

thanks ill check some of those out

dynamik

Spinrite's about $90.

JDMurray

What are the symptoms of the corruption? Will reading certain files throw a "sector not found" error? Spinrite can fix that. If it's more of a file system or disk partition corruption problem then you'll need higher-level tools, like those on the Ultimate Boot CD.

seuss_ssues

have you tried running chkdsk /r if its windows or fsck if its linux?

You would be surprised at what all that will fix.

shednik

seuss_ssues wrote:

have you tried running chkdsk /r if its windows or fsck if its linux?

You would be surprised at what all that will fix.

I would do what seuss suggested first and I can recommend on-track data recovery as well for recovering data.

nicklauscombs

im gonna run checkdisk on it at lunch and try out some of the other utilities if that fails, thanks for the suggestions