HDD(corrupted) data recovery help?

[pj_mcgarvey at hotmail.com (PJ McGarvey)]

I've consistently used photorec a number of times to find files that were on drives that were corrupted, formatted, or 
the files were deleted.  I've used some of the free windows utils like Recuva and others, they seem to work OK too.

 

I've also worked with OnTrack.com for HDD recovery at my work, though that's usually in the thousands of dollars.

 

PJ
 


From: rulzwrld at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:51:20 -0700
To: pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com
Subject: [Pauldotcom] HDD(corrupted) data recovery help?

So I just started having bad sectors in my WD external 1TB hdd and so I used an excelent software by dmitry HDD 
Regenerator. It actually fixed all of the bad sectors.I could read all the data but couldn't write to the hdd. SO I did 
an advance RMA(They send you a new one before you send the old one back). Few days later my new HDD arrived from WD but 
when I tried backing up all my data was gone.. *poof* the hdd was completely corrupted. All my windows computer detect 
it but does not populate it. I tried same (HDD Regenerator) software and its shows 0mb in 0sectors available and 
doesn't work. 

Do you have any forensics software which I could try to recover my data before sending it back?

Also I dont have any PII in it, but lot of personal collections which I would love to recover. I don't to spend $$$ to 
send it to professional recovery people.

Thanks,
-W.Gibson.
                                          
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