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ATIH2012 is it suitable for crashed harddrive recovery ?

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Acronis True Image Home 2012, is it suitable for crashed harddrive recovery ?
I had a win XP laptop crash & the harddrive appeared corrupted. I had the harddrive looked at & a recovery software said it was recoverable.
I now have a win 7 laptop & want to recover the crashed harddrive. Is Acronis True Image Home 2012 able to recover this harddrive Please ??
I have the harddrive plugged into a IDE to USB cable & the win 7 computer recognises the drive.
Cheers
Col

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If the drive still spins up, but has a number of bad sectors, the only thing I've ever seen that will pull off the remaining data would be something like EnCase.

I don't think Acronis can even remotely handle bad sector / file recovery.

EnCase is a forensic utility that reads every sector, and then builds a new file table so that you can export remaining files off the drive.

Thanks GBMaryland
Hopefully ATIM12 can do it or maybe it needs the Plus version ?? I'll wait a while & see what comes out here.
Cheers
Col

Colin,

As GBMaryland indicated ATIH is not a data recovery application. May I suggest either of these which I have used successfully in the past:

Get Data Back - FAT or NTFS

Easeus Data Recovery  

Get Data Back is remarkable and FREE to try.  It allows you to slave the failed drive in a working system and test its ability to recovery data from the disk.  If successful, you buy a license and it allows you to copy your data off the drive.  It's got a nice GUI and is very easy to use.  Easeus is about the same and is also a very good app. 

Thanks shadowsports, for the advise & recommendations you have given.
I was a bit confused with the discriptions on the ATIH2012 box, particularly recovery, disk failures & operation system failures....?
I will seek out the ones you have suggested.
Cheers
Col

So,

A few other things to point out to you:

Drives that have bad sectors are generally either old or manfuctioning. Old drives (and sometime malfunctioning ones) will start to go and sometime begin not to spin.

It's VERY important that you get the software in question and run the extraction on the drive now.

It's also VERY helpful to have software that does not require the directory on the hard disk to find all of the files. The directory typically goes by the name of the FAT or File Allocation Table. The reason EnCase and tools like it are helpful is that they rebuild the files without the FAT, which includes the pointers to all of the files. That way, if you have bad sectors in one of the copies of the file directory, you can still find all your stuff.

That's the extreme case.

Otherwise, if the FAT/directory is intact, you could actually run a tool from the manufacturer, or, assuming windows, CHKDSK /f /r and let it run for as many hours as it takes.

Also, stop using/connecting/accessing the drive until you are ready to perform the recovery. The more you run a failing drive, the more likely it is to suffer further or complete loss. Just leave it unconnected until you have everything ready for file recovery.

tuttle wrote:

Also, stop using/connecting/accessing the drive until you are ready to perform the recovery. The more you run a failing drive, the more likely it is to suffer further or complete loss. Just leave it unconnected until you have everything ready for file recovery.

Colinbm,
tuttle has probably given the best advice. Take the disk out of service until you are ready to attempt recovery. We certainly hope your efforts will be successful.

Thanks everyone, much appreciated.
It looks like I will purchase Easeus Data Recovery & give it the task.
Cheers
Col