So what is a good tool for partition recovery?

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Bernie

The best I've found so far was to call a mate who had a copy of Active
Partition Recovery and buy him a beer. Worked perfectly.

Moral of the story;

Don't install a boot manager without getting other people to test it on
their own machines first.

I will be getting a copy of the above util to add to my own toolkit.
 
After this thread, I've learned about a number of interesting apps I didn't
know about. I've also had reaffirmed the value of a cold beer (from the
phrase "hot wimins cold beer.")

I think it is (and it is great that you found someone who had what you
needed) that Partition Recovery was a reliable tool you could use that your
mate had. But Spin Rite and the methods in Win Internals Administrator's
Pack would have done it but are not cheap:

http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/Default.aspx

CH
 
Chad said:
After this thread, I've learned about a number of interesting apps I didn't
know about. I've also had reaffirmed the value of a cold beer (from the
phrase "hot wimins cold beer.")

I think it is (and it is great that you found someone who had what you
needed) that Partition Recovery was a reliable tool you could use that your
mate had. But Spin Rite and the methods in Win Internals Administrator's
Pack would have done it but are not cheap:

http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/Default.aspx
Click to expand...

I looked at the admin pak and it looked good but I could not find any
data on how to get it or what the pricing was. I expect it would be a
very useful suite to have.

The friend has been in tech support for about 15 years and has a vast
library of utilities. As it happened it probably would have been cheaper
to just buy active partition recovery as the beers were followed by a
curry:-)
 
Naw. Friends like that with your interest in how things work are always good
to have Bernie. The Sysinternals organization was bought by MSFT and their
brilliant guys are now Softies.
Is that an oxymoron?

Bernie info is here:
http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/Default.aspx

I don't see prices. But you can call them:

http://www.winternals.com/Company/ContactUs.aspx

Products for Recovery
http://www.winternals.com/Products/Default.aspx

This is a good source Bernie--Mark's Blog
http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/

Disk Utilities
http://www.sysinternals.com/FileAndDiskUtilities.html

Check out the links:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html

Good stuff in the categories.

CH
 
We've always applied for jobs on the basis of what we both know about on
the theory that the client wants the job done and doesn't care if you
had the knowledge before you had the problem or after you phoned your
friend. So far it's worked out very well for both of us.

Thanks for those links.
 
Those, to me, look like all the essential tools an OS should have but
forgot to include?
 
deebs said:
Those, to me, look like all the essential tools an OS should have but
forgot to include?
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The utility software companies would drop every little bit of funding and
support for microsoft if MS put those "essential tools" into it's OS. They
would also probably do the "crybaby" routine like Sun did and sue MS because
there are very few technologies in the data recovery field that haven't
already been produced. If MS included a data recovery tool with Windows,
you know damn well that SOMEONE would find a way to sue them for it, so why
should they? I don't blame them at all. People constantly wanting to sue
them because they don't make as much money as MS...poor babies. Wanna make
money in the real world, you do it EXACTLY like MS did it.

Same thing with JAVA and Sun. Sun sues MS for using java technology in
windows because they wanted MS to pay them for something that they give
away. Yes, they won the lawsuit, but they also screwed themselves in the
deal. MS just did the smart thing and said "okay, we won't pay you to use
it because we'll simply not use it. See where Sun is now? dead on the side
of the road, along with java going the same way being replaced with better
technology. I love how karma works, don't you?

Anyways...if I were MS, there is no way I would throw a tool like that into
the OS package...a lawsuit waiting to happen there.

As for Bernie's deal...like I said before...just get the DATA back and redo
your partitions. It's annoying but, even places like DriveSavers and all of
the data recovery places are going to charge you thousands of dollars to get
your data back. People seem to be ignorant of the fact that those places DO
NOT REPAIR YOUR DRIVE AND SEND IT BACK TO YOU INTACT...They simply recover
the data onto dvd and that's that. (Trust me, I've been in that game a long
time...) If the drive is spinning up, put $89US into buying SpinRite, which
is still (and I test these things for a living) the best one I've tried out
of at LEAST 200 data recovery utilities...Get your data off the drive and
repartition/reinstall the thing. You're going to save yourself a LOT of
headache if you simply pay a bit of money to buy one that actually WORKS and
start from there...or you can spend the 5 years of testing out each
individual utility to see which one is the most reliable for doing it...
 
The best I've found so far was to call a mate who had a copy of Active
Partition Recovery and buy him a beer. Worked perfectly.
Click to expand...

I always found the Acronis tools to be VERY good.




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