Comments on: Best Data Recovery Software – Top 10 List http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/ Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kelsey http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-32726 Kelsey Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:03:23 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-32726 Thanks for the reply and sorry for my replying late!
Well, it makes a beep sound, shows me the screen that says how to get to the BIOS (I can get to the bios, but my computer won’t boot in safe mode.) It’s not the windows screen, I think. I’m sorry that I don’t know much ha.

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-31154 Pablo Garcia Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:03:32 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-31154 Hi Kelsey
What is the last thing you see before you get the blinking cursor? What the computer does is first the BIOS (a computer chip) test all computer components, then it goes onto the Windows booting process. So it is very important to determine if the computer is trying to boot from windows or if it does not even get to that part. If it tries to boot from Windows and it gets stuck, getting you files out should be trivial.

]]> By: Kelsey http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-31151 Kelsey Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:30:18 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-31151 Hi. I don’t know if this is a good place to ask, but my computer has recently stopped working for me, probably a virus. I’m not good with computers at all, and I am wondering what program works best for getting my files. Whenever I turn on my computer it just has a black screen with a blinking cursor. A friend of mine looked at it and said I need a new hard drive. It doesn’t sound any different than usual (no clicking sounds or anything). I’m extremely cautious because I want to get my files. Would any or all of these programs work or is there a something different I should do?

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-26546 Pablo Garcia Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:32:04 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-26546 Hi Alemayehu
The ones that come to mind are the utilities from the manufacturer. Like the ones from Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital that can be downloaded for free from the website. I believe that the Ultimate Boot CD includes them all in one CD.

]]> By: Alemayehu Gudaya http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-26467 Alemayehu Gudaya Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:11:27 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-26467 I found this site very useful. It is comforting to believe that there are folks out there who always want to help people when they are in need. My problem is that I have a netbook which ended up in a cycle of “disk read error; press ctrl+alt+del” following my attempt of installing win XP using an external cd drive to get rid of my problem with win 7. Each time I try, it starts installing, completes the 1st phase, goes to restart & returns with the above message. I appreciate it very much if you can tell me if there is a program that can run from a cd and check what is wrong with the hard drive, or any solution.
Thank you!

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-24814 Pablo Garcia Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:27:06 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-24814 Hi Fernando:

Linux can probably do it. Boot the computer with a Parted Magic Live CD. Then try mounting the partition.

]]> By: Fernando http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-24808 Fernando Tue, 31 May 2011 21:52:50 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-24808 ps: I’m sorry, but it seems I’ve been writing the wrong name; it’s not ‘hff+’, it’s ‘hfs+’, something to do with the mac OS. And Parted Magic says it works with hfs+, so I’ll give it a try. by the way, I don’t know if I’ve been clear about what i want to do: I wanted to plug an Mac HDD to my PC motherboard and recover (making an image would be best) all files from this HDD using my PC. Any help would be unbelievably appreciated
Best wishes

]]> By: Fernando http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-24803 Fernando Tue, 31 May 2011 20:59:18 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-24803 Thank you for your reply Pablo! That’s exactly what I’ve done, I took the hdd off the i-mac, and it seems to be a common seagate of 320 gb, but with that “apple” symbol, that a friend of mine said only hff+ softwares can read when connected to a PC motherboard. Do you know which of those can do this? I tried to find out at their website but still isn’t clear. If you also don’t know I’ll keep searching and post here afterwards the results.
Thanks again!
Fernando

]]> By: Pablo Garcia http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-24679 Pablo Garcia Sun, 29 May 2011 16:09:03 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-24679 Hi Fernando, I am not familiar with Mac, I am not sure that a MAV will let you boot, from a liveCD. But I know that if you take the hard drive out of the computer and connect it to a PC you will be able to recover your data with some of these programs.

]]> By: Fernando http://geekyprojects.com/data-recovery-2/best-data-recovery-software-top-10-list/comment-page-1/#comment-24652 Fernando Sun, 29 May 2011 04:54:34 +0000 http://geekyprojects.com/?p=2652#comment-24652 Do these programs work on mac hdd? I heard something about a need for software compatibility with hff+ (???), so.. do you think they would work?
Regards
Fernando

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