re: recovered files corrept o/s
Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
There are some things that you don't want to do during data reovery.
1) have an operating system like windows running.
2) run a buggy recovery software package. (sorry but the one you used didn't do
very well on my test disk)
3) have the recovery program store the recovered files on a drive that has other
files or potential identically named files on the storage drive, no matter what directories
they may be in. You especially never want to use a drive that has your Windows install
on it, and certianly never recover from, and store to the same drive (you would be
surprised how many people do this). No matter how careful you are, you can never
trust any program not to corrupt your drive due to some unforseen bug of some type.
Always recover files TO a drive that is clean/empty for various reasons. A program
that is requesting a check disk (on the source drive) hasn't been written well enough
to be able to handle the vast amount of errors and corruption that is possible on
a damaged drive.
Those of us who recover damaged, corrupted and formatted drives have a specific set
of do's and don'ts so that we can keep everything seperated and safe with the recoverable
data as undamaged as possible.
I've used and only recommend software from the site below in my business. Recovered
most of a drive just last week that no other program would even touch. I thought
the business owner was going to have a celebration party on the spot!!
www.atl-datarecovery.com
You can try before you by. Unless you have additional hardware issues, then I would
say your recovery program overwrote some critical files due to a bug, a defect in
the program or a mistake somehow on your part. (which is all to common in some recovery
programs)
If you noticed on the website of the program you used, it has grammer, spelling and
punctuation errors. Not a real good sign IME..
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