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June 10, 2007
Recovering Lost Data
Recently my computer crashed and I had no access to any of the files on my hard drive. I use a backup program and tried to do a restore and quickly found out that my backups were corrupted and worthless. I had about 8 years of email history, receipts, pictures, purchased music, and countless important documents that were lost and needed to be recovered.
I also tried what everyone does - rebooted about 100 times - but each time I would get an error explaining that no hard drives were found. I was desperate to get access to my data and started looking at hard drive recovery companies from my laptop. I quickly discovered that hard drive repair companies were there for large companies with lots of money, not for someone who wanted to recover more personal stuff than files to save a business. Also, the prices were outrageous, most services were $2,000 and up just for them to give it a shot.
Another worry was if they somehow were able to access my hard drive, they would have access to all my personal financial data I keep in Quicken. I figured there had to be a cheaper ‘do it yourself’ solution out there so I kept looking – then I stumbled on BinaryBiz. Their VirtualLab data recovery software saved me from pretty much starting my computer life from scratch.
They have a free trial version for Windows that quickly found almost all of my files and displayed them in an organized list. I was never happier to pay for software I found on the Internet. For less than $200 dollars my binary life was saved.
If you ever need data recovery for a crashed disk, I would recommend giving BinaryBiz a try before either giving up or sending your hard drive to some stranger that will charge 10 times as much with no guarantee of success.
Posted by Idea Man at June 10, 2007 06:30 PM
Comments
I personally use a program called "File Scavenger" from QueTek. The professional version will even recover from RAID0 and RAID5 stripped arrays. Works like a charm on a failed RAID5 array.
Posted by: playa.jaco.costa.rica@gmail.com at October 14, 2007 08:05 PM
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