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Question

Any software to recover corrupted hard drive?

Jul 9, 2011 4:46AM PDT

Anybody knows any good recovery software for hard drives? I see a lot of softwares to recover lost FILES, but I am thinking if I could recover the HARD DRIVE, it must be easier to get the files back. Or no such thing possible?

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Re: recovery
Jul 9, 2011 4:54AM PDT

We used to have Norton's diskedit to directly edit sectors on hard drive using hexadecimal codes, but I doubt if it has grown with the size of the current disks. And I doubt also if it enabled you to replace a (bad) sector by a spare one.

So what I would do: get all your files off with recovery software, then repartition and reformat.

Kees

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I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 9, 2011 6:06AM PDT

Hi Kees,