Hard Drive Repair Software

GetDataBack has been recommended in the past. I haven't had to use it, but I've heard good things.

I'd spend the money on a backup drive first (if it's for your use, anyways) rather than spend money on GDB.
 
Sometimes spending $70 on another backup HD is a great idea that comes a little too late. I recently tried to install Vista as a double boot on my working XP. Yes, I did back up critical files. But the difference between backing up critical files and backing up an entire HD can be, um, critical. Anyway, the Vista install did indeed eat my HD boot sector, and then thought it should format the drive, which I hit the panic button on; after that nothing would recognize it as anything but an unformatted or unrecognized single partition of the full disk size..

Except GetDataBack for NTFS. You can download the trial and run it, and see if it actually can read the disk. I did this, and most files were there and intact. So I paid the $70 for the registered version that actually recovers the data to another disk. For me, this was a bargin at twice the price. Highly recommended if you can't get anything else to work.

It did not recover the drive and make it bootable, but it did get all the data back that I needed (a lot of the wierd Windows files seemed to be bad, but I didn't care about that).
 
You do not FIX bad drives. At the most, you recover data from them and toss them in the trash/perform invasive experiments on them. Data Recovery companies do not FIX drives, they make them work long enough to get your data copied to a safer location then tell you to scrap them. Hard drives are expendable consumer electronics. Do not think of them as living, breathing creatures.
 
To repair drives long enough for me to get the data off them, I use Spinrite. It has saved my ass a couple of times when my hard drives or my client's hard drives are either corrupted or just weird. I've seen it repair a few drives that the guys at Geek squad were unrecoverable.

Although if you just want to get your data and not repair the drive, go with GetDataBack
 
Spinrite doesn't actually 'do' anything to FIX a bad drive.

And Geek Squad isn't specialized in data recovery. Hell, they hardly know how to install RAM. They plug the drive into a USB adapter and run software. Ooh, how knowledgeable and cutting-edge!
 
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