My Hard Drive Died!

Software Links:

BenchMark HQ
http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/be_hdd.html
A great amount of free hard drive software including links to MHDD 4.6 and Victoria for Dos and Windows. Keep in mind these tools work on Secondary Drives and usually disable the primary controller for obvious reasons. While they are Russian programs but have English Versions.

GetDataBack and DiskExplorer from http://www.Runtime.org
I have found that the tools from Runtime.org are extremely useful I use them often in my recovery work for NTFS and FAT Drives.  I suggest that you try DiskExplorer for  a hard drive that has sector damage as it will allow you to skip other data and go straight to the data you are looking for and extract it. GetDataBack is great if you can read the disk and have limited damage, but DiskExplorer is the real gem once you understand and have experience with it.

Other Useful Software I have used you may want to try.

Free Software Products:
The Supreme Commander of Free Products:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/
http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
http://www.partitionsupport.com/

Other Software Products:
R-Studio http://www.r-tt.com
Disk Commander http://www.winternals.com/
File Rescue 2.5 http://www.file-rescue.com
Undelete http://www.executive.com/
Hard Drive Mechanic http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/
http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/
Back2Life http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/57588.html
DFSee/ http://www.dfsee.com
Fast File Recovery http://savemyfiles.com/fastfile.htm
Undelete 3.0 http://www.pcconnection.com/
Active UNERASER http://www.uneraser.com/undelete.htm
File Scavenge http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
File Restore http://www.winternals.com/
File Recover 2000 / http://www.filerecover.com
Undelete http://www.quantumsoft.co.uk/undelete.stm
Fast File Undelete http://www.dtidata.com/products_ff_undelete.asp
Data Recovery http://www.dtidata.com
For NTFS http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
Unformat http://www.unformat-unerase.com/#1

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