Recover data from a corrupted hard disk
If you noticed, my posting has been, slow for the last 2 days. My hard disk at home decided to take my life out of the usual and just went dead early Tuesday morning. The boot sector went corrupt and my PC wouldn’t start. It was only 7 months’ old! Damn that Max harddisk (I hate that name for other reasons).
Anyway, all I could think of was the tons of pictures and videos of my family still inside there (yeah I didn’t back them up). It was pure heartbreak. Coincidentally, I was on leave that day and I have my office’s notebook with me, to prepare for a presentation on Wednesday. So I search for ways to recover my data before I tried to resuscitate the hard disk.
Fortunately, I found PC Inspector’s File Recovery freeware, which says it can finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged. So I tried it and yes, it works! Though not all files I managed to recover, but the most dear to me are all safe. That includes pictures, videos, ebooks and web site backups.
What I did was, used an IDE to USB converter, plug it into the notebook and used PC Inspector to detect the hard disk and copy the files over.
Files that I lost were MP3s, torrented movies (40 year old virgin, basic instinct 2) and my income tax e-filing digital certificate. Looks like I have to get a new one.
Anyway, let’s just say now my hard disk is clean and I have to do a clean re-install all over again. Shucks. Well, here’s one file you want to keep. Click here to download, its FREE.
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May 23rd, 2006 at 11:27 am
you’re supposed to be able to backup the income tax e-filing digicert at Digicert Sdn Bhd site.
that, and of course backing it up elsewhere, in a diskette, thumbdrive, gmail account etc etc etc