yaminohaka
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I am trying to get old pictures and documents off an old hard drive for a friend. I told him no problem, and then went to work on it. I was getting really wired feed back from it. So, I ask him if something happen to hard drive or damage or something. He said, maybe, just maybe it over heated because there weren't enough air flow to it. Though, I've never seen his computer, that could be the problem.
So, my question is: Is there a way of seeing if the hard drive is damaged? I heard of the software that comes with windows xp and I guess Vista too (im using xp though) that can see if there is any damages to hard drives or hardware. I think it's called..... CMM or CCM (i forgot, but it's call) "Computer Management" within Control Panel and then Administrative Tools. I think it's "Disk Management". Does anyone know?
If final, is there any programs anyone knows of for recovering lost data for windows, but any linux software is welcome, but i would understand windows a lot more. I am using windows xp, and ubuntu feisty fawns. So I can get my friend's information back off this hard drive. I have tired "FreeUndelete" (I think) and "Recover Lost Data 2007" Both couldn't do anything for this hard drive. FreeUndelete said the format of the hard drive was Raw and that there was nothing to recover and Recover Lost Data show the drive as two hard drives, I think one was Fat16 and the other was Fat32 with no size of the hard drive. But I Know the hard drive was NTFS, so I don't know what to do anymore. Is there any other really good programs out there to recover data off a hard drive???
Thank you,
Ocha
So, my question is: Is there a way of seeing if the hard drive is damaged? I heard of the software that comes with windows xp and I guess Vista too (im using xp though) that can see if there is any damages to hard drives or hardware. I think it's called..... CMM or CCM (i forgot, but it's call) "Computer Management" within Control Panel and then Administrative Tools. I think it's "Disk Management". Does anyone know?
If final, is there any programs anyone knows of for recovering lost data for windows, but any linux software is welcome, but i would understand windows a lot more. I am using windows xp, and ubuntu feisty fawns. So I can get my friend's information back off this hard drive. I have tired "FreeUndelete" (I think) and "Recover Lost Data 2007" Both couldn't do anything for this hard drive. FreeUndelete said the format of the hard drive was Raw and that there was nothing to recover and Recover Lost Data show the drive as two hard drives, I think one was Fat16 and the other was Fat32 with no size of the hard drive. But I Know the hard drive was NTFS, so I don't know what to do anymore. Is there any other really good programs out there to recover data off a hard drive???
Thank you,
Ocha