Need best way to recover the main Outlook pst file on disk where file was deleted and which has bad sectors
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I have also used recover my files but I would not suggest that as the next step. Your better off trying to copy the file after spinrite runs. Again turn the drive off for a bit to cool off, then try copying it via windows. If that fails. Then try copying it via command prompt, there are some paramaters you can use i think you use xcopy with a couple paramaters. If that fails then yes move onto RecoverMyData. That program works well too. I was able to recover lots of data from a hard drive that had been formatted with vista accidentaly. Gotta love how it didnt prompt me to pick the partition, anyways I agree get some form of backup for those ultra important files. Shortly after my fiasco I invested in building my own Raid 5 NAS. Because my data is too big to backup online. It would cost a fortune.
If all else fails take it to a clean room and tell them you only want 1 file off of it and they will charge less than if you say recover this drive. Could probobly do it for about 500 bucks or less if you found the right place.
Any questions let me know, cheers.
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M$Make sure in the future you backup your machine using a service like mozy.com and/or copying it to an external drive. Having a copy is far easier than trying to restore after the fact.
Good Luck!
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Do you think this free tool is as good as SpinRite?: http://www.dposoft.net/rbd.html - "Repartition Bad Drive is free utility from Abstradrome which is intended to isolate unrecoverable bad sectors from partitions."
No I don't think the free tool is as good as SpinRite. :) This is the case of you get what you pay for. The guy that writes SpinRite is dedicated to that one sol task. I mean how long did it take your system to run that free util? SpinRite takes days, weeks or sometimes months. The reason is it tries to read the sector in many different ways to ensure it has the best chance at recovering the sector before marking it bad and moving that data to a block that is not bad. It is the ONLY tool I've seen that can recover partial sectors. These partial sectors are the key to it's ability to simply work better than any other piece of software on the market.
Good Luck!
definitely try SpinRite first. Nothing does the job like Spinrite. It offers a number of features and very sophisticated ways to recover data that no other software does.