At 3/26/2003 10:22 PM, Ken Shearer wrote:

Ended up replacing her HDD, got her system restored, and
brought the old HDD home to hook as a slave on one of our
other PCs in an effort to recover the data (it's been ages
since she had backed this drive up).  When I start my
machine, the black bootup screen shows her drive as the
slave on IDE-0 and identifies it correctly.  However,
after Windows starts, you don't see the drive at all when
you go to Windows Explorer.

Anybody out there know how I can get her data back for her
without spending oodles for data recover software or
professional services?
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Can you boot to DOS and see data on the drive?  I would
try that first.

Then depending on the value and quantity of data needing
recovering, you may want to look at:

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecovery/

They have varying pricing on packages from $89 to $499
with a free demo to see what files it can detect before
you buy.

Another software solution for $69 that allows you to see
what can be recovered before buying is:

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

GetDataBack for FAT.

The download will let you look at the files that it can
recover before you have to register.

Doug

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