Data Recovery Program Help

I heard that it is possible to restore system state to factory conditions (kind of like a reformat) by pressing the blue ThinkVantage button when windows is loading (I am using XP). Does this process require the windows XP cds? How thorough of a cleanup is this method?
I use a Thinkpad T60p-2007 running WinXP

asyouwere wrote:
I heard that it is possible to restore data system state to factory conditions (kind of like a reformat) by pressing the blue ThinkVantage button when windows is loading (I am using XP). Does this process require the windows XP cds? How thorough of a cleanup is this method?
I use a Thinkpad T60p-2007 running WinXP
If you have a good drive exactly identical to your bad drive, you can try swapping the controller boards on the drives (the electronics of the drives). If your problem is on the controller you can swap it long enough to retrieve your data, then swap back and chunk it.

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h'lo all
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Does anyone know of a Mac (OS X) program for DVD data recovery?
thanks

Prosoft Data Rescue II, Subrosasoft Filesalvage, and Boomerang's Boomerang may be able to extract data from the DVD. Make sure the drive in question is capable of reading the DL media burnt at the speed you burnt your disk, and faster. http://www.macsales.com/ has Firewire DVD drives that are among the fastest Mac compatible drives in the market.

Need a good free data recovery program

Can anyone suggest a good free data recovery program? I have some deleted images on a camera card that I'm trying to revive.
Thanks!

If there is any chance of recovery at all your best bet is Prosoft Data Rescue 3 . There is a free trial to see if it can recover what you need. But don't do another process on that drive until you've downloaded and run it.
That means that ideally you should use another bootable drive to download and run Data Rescue. Or booted from another Mac in firewire mode. Also, there is always the option of ordering or going to the store to purchase the DVD. Then running from the optical drive.
-mj

Completely DEAD iPhone 3GS, Data Recovery ?HELP?

I have a iPhone 3GS 16GB, The other day it just went off? tried unplugging it from the mains and plugging it back in again, but nothing happened.
I tried to get it to go into DFU mode, Nothing!
Plugged it into my Desktop PC, Nothing showed in itunes?
I had it tested by a local phone shop and they said they did all the scans/checks and whatnot that they could and the iphone is a complete dud!:(
But i really need the data that is on there?
I have been told that if i take it to an apple store they can do a data retract for me?
What are my options for a complete dead iphone but needing the data on there?

Apple does not offer and will not perform any data recovery service.
A simple google search will reveal multiple data recovery services, if you really need such a service and are willing to pay an arm, a leg, and give up your first born child for that data.
If the device has been used as designed, it would have been backed up regularly to iTunes or iCloud.
Simply restore that backup to a new iOS device.
Contacts and calendars should be synced to a supported application on the computer or a cloud service.
Pictures taken with the device should be regularly copied off the device to a computer as would be done with any digital camera.

Is there an effective data recovery program for iPod Touch?

I accidently deleted a video and I've tried a couple different data recovery tools and havne't had any luck. Has anyone ever been able to use something that like that and if so what did you use? I'd even be willing to pay a little as it has sentimental value, but I'd like to have a first hand review saying it actually works.

iPod data recovery software support Windows based operation system with all Apple iPod models such as iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Mini, iPod Touch, iPod Mini. iPod Recovery software restore all songs, photos, pictures, images, music & videos files from corrupted, formatted, deleted or inaccessible iPod
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Download:- http://www.pcrecoverytools.com/ipod-data-recovery.html

Nokia 6300 - Data Recovery - Please Help !!!

HI....
I had been using the Nokia 6300 for the past 10 months and had encounter no problem at all. But do not know why, suddenly 2 days ago, the phone just suddenly freezed. I tried to turn off and turn on the phone, but I just can't enter into the menu. when the phone is turn on, only see the 'Nokia' wording, then the whole screen is just white and can only see the battery logo. It can't be turn off, need to remove the battery. I haven't back-up my contacts and smses yet, when this happen. Would like to know if anyone can help. I am really desperate now. All the contacts and smses are very important. Is there any way or method, that I can use, so that I can save the datas?
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If the phone won't start up, all you can do is take it to a service centre for repair. If your phone is under warranty, then damage caused by something going wrong in software updater is covered as a free repair.

Question about Apps lost during data recovery. Help!

My hard drive recently failed on my 2007 imac and having not backed up my mac for about 18 months I had to pay specialists to retrieve my data, which they put onto an external drive. I then got a new 1TB hybrid drive installed. Tonight I finally got my computer back. Very naively I was thinking I would be able to pick back up from where I left off. Before my drive broke I had Mavericks and was fully up to date running software like Logic X. Now I am back on 10.6.8. Can I just skip now straight up to Yosemite?

You don't have an option, Mavericks is no longer available so Yosemite is the only available OS available from Mac App Store.
Logic will open if you install it from the Mac App Store just as any other previously purchased applications.

Synchronizing - Data Recovery (.cvf) Help

Newbie to the forum. Hopefully this is the correct thread?
Had Palm Desktop v 4.2 installed on my Windows XP Pro and was using it to sync with my Treo 650. Recently purchased a Pre and am in the process of moving the data over. Painful so far. Palm support web site indicated that Palm Desktop v6.2 was required to begin the data tranfer to the Pre. Downloaded v6.2 and installed. The install recognized the previous version 4.2. and the install seemed to go well. When I opened the new Desktop none of my old data (contacts, etc.) was there. I was especially confused that no contact catagory was shown with the new install.
Prior to doing this upgrade, I did export all of the data to a .cvf file on my desktop. I believe I was asked and did sync the Treo with the new v6.2 as part of the install.. Because none of the data was transferred, I tried to import the saved .cvf data, but the new Palm Desktop version only recognized a new .cvs format . . . And all of the data is still available on my Treo . . .
Frustrated and thinking I should start over I did uninstall the Palm v6.2 completely (Windows add/remove). Suggestions . . . ?
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A little confusing... There are two common export formats for contacts (address book entries):
.vcf = vCard format, most often used for individual export
.csv = comma separated values, most often used for bulk export
If your address book on your 650 is intact, you may be able to sync the data into Desktop 6.2. However, I haven't used that version myself. You might peruse the Windows HotSync board here for pointers on the 4.x to 6.x migration.
http://forums.palm.com/palm/board?board.id=windows_hotsync

Help! Best data recovery software?

Help!
Accidentally put some important photos in the Trash Can, and emptied it.
Best data recovery program = ?
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Click here and pick a product. Don't write anything else to the drive until the files are recovered or you choose not to recover them.
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HELP ! Two SATA drives in an external enclosure RAID ZERO. Need data recovery.

What a nightmare !     My neighbor died from esophageal cancer and the funeral is in one week. He left behind a G5 2.5 DP tower with a dead motherboard, and he put the two 640 GB SATA drives in an Other World Computing external enclosure Mercury Elite Pro Dual) weeks before he expired. He got access to these drives in this enclosure. (External RAIDs are a no-no).
His grieving wife wants pictures extracted from the drives. There is no known back up and the G5 tower cannot be found.
When connecting the external enclosure by FW800 or USB3, the need to format flag pops up. Disk Utility shows one 1400 GB drive "unformatted".    The DIP switches on the enclosure are set to RAID 0.   Several data recovery programs find files, but of course any jpg over 50kb looks like venetian blinds, Tried Data Rescue 3, and the drive depicted as 1280 GB does not divide using expert features and the command key, thus a RAID SET for emulation cannot be formed. See here: See here: http://www.prosofteng.com/blog/recovering-data-from-a-apple-raid-using-data-resc ue-3-by-prosoft-engineering-2/
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1. Try another enclosure ?
2. Insert these drives into my personal G5 tower ?
3. Try different data recovery software ?
4. Which software other than Data Rescue will recover from two drives in one external enclosure believed to be RAID ZERO ?
Thank you.

Yes, if and when the tower can be located and retrieved.   In one communication it was described as a G4, in another, a G5.
Turns out that a single external drive was found, so suspect that is the boot drive. In the mean time, am doing an emulated recovery (two sets) using two converter boxes to isolate the two SATA drives, assuming RAID 0 and 32kb striped,   The two sets and because the drive order is unknown.   The first recovery is almost completed.
BTW, OWC rep stated that the two drives cannot be read in their dual SATA enclosure. The rep stated that the drives would have to be reformatted while in thier enclosure, then use. Tried two enclosures to see if they would read the drives independently, and one brand had a silly interface.   One has to put in two "dummy drives" (or ones in which the data is not important) and then convert the electronics (reset switch + power button) to RAID 0.

Data Recovery Software for the Zen Vision M

Data Recovery Software for the Zen Vision M:
Has anyone had any success recovering lost sound files from a Vision M, with software, physical repair services, or otherwise? Does anyone claim to be able to recover information from these devices?
The data recovery programs I have tried fail to recognize the dri've, since it doesn't show up in list of dri'ves for some reason (Is there a way to make this show up?). Any suggestions/ recommendations would be greatly appreciated as I lost over a year of recordings after an unexpected forced reformatting. How would one even go about finding someone for this job?
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Is there a recovery program to undelete?

THE STORY:
Basically, I had a lot of music on my computer in iTunes, and it was taking up all the memory. I had to get it off, so I bought the 80G iPod and put all of the music on it, deleting all of the computer's music afterward. Later, I went to put the music back on the computer from the iPod to make some changes with artist info and such. I was able to copy the files back on, but in the process my computer froze (darn Windows!) and basically shut down. I didn't realize that they hadn't completed copying, so I went ahead and restarted the computer and assumed they were all back there. I then hooked my iPod back to the computer, and hadn't yet added the re-copied files into iTunes, but merely left them in a folder on the hard drive. At this point I accidentally synced my iPod to my now empty iTunes. What it did was replace my iPod's files with the nothingness in iTunes--emptying my iPod completely. I was very frustrated because the whole reason I bought an iPod was to keep my music, and now all was lost. Adding the few files that had re-copied gave me back around 500 songs. Restoring the files in recycling bin gave me a new total of about 1600. However, originally I'd had about 4300. I think what happened was when I deleted the files it was too big for recycling bin so it only held a certain amount. Using a demo recovery program, I was able to locate 2700 songs or so which takes me to about what I originally had. However, it being a demo, I couldn't actually restore them. Then I thought, the iPod itself is technically a hard drive, and it would be a lot easier if I could just restore all the data lost from there. And shouldn't it be sort of floating around inside or something?
THE ACTUAL QUESTION IS:
Can I restore data when the iPod's accidentally erased, or/and is there an undelete or data recovery program available to get my songs back, or are they lost forever?
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There are some data recovery programs on the market. I've no personal experience of them so I can't say how effective they are, here's an example: iPod Data Recovery Buegie - Recovering Songs </a
None of the recovery programs are particularly cheap so you have to decide if in your particular circumstances it's worth it to get your songs back. It may be if you have a lot of purchased tracks which you will have to pay to download again. If they came primarily from your CDs then it's most likely not as you can re-rip them.

LaCie external drive data recovery in 10.5?

I purchased my iMac on Sunday. My 500GB LaCie Big Disk Extreme mounted in OSX v10.5 with no problems.
I was running 10.3.9 prior to Sunday, so I checked for updates to various applications, and found LaCie's Update Tool, Ver. 1.4.2.
Just as the 1.4.2 update was finishing, I received an 'unable to update firmware' message, and the drive has not mounted since. It shows up in both Disk Utility and System Profiler, but DU will not allow me to Verify or Repair. I moved the LaCie back to my old G4, and it would not mount there either.
I spoke to Apple Care this morning as well as LaCie's tech support. Both assumptions are that my LaCie external drive is corrupted, and in need of data recovery.
Apart from being bummed, I am confused by the yes/no postings for Disk Warrior and other such data recovery programs, in relation to 10.5 compatibility.
Any suggestions at this point would be welcome, as I'm lost without them.

It seemed to work for a little while. Under the CBR folder, there were 61 separate files of JPEG images alone. The first dozen or so seemed to come through alright, then I saw nothing but striated and partial (like 10% visible) images after that, no matter which of the JPEG folders I downloaded from.
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I'm appreciating the encouragement here. I don't feel like giving up and walking away from this without a fight. I'm not wealthy, but I'm willing to spend some bucks to see this resolved without loss.
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Data recovery - HELP!

Hi there
I have done the stupidest thing EVER! I back up my entire MacBook on an external hard drive - so far, so sensible. Only I've updated what I've backed up by replacing folders with newer versions and I've only just realised. I've lost four years' worth of digital photos and I'm praying there's some way of recovering them. Please help me! I'll name my future children after you and put you in my will!
Here's what I've done in full:
- I upload all my photos to iPhoto, edit them and then save them into a folder within a folder on my desktop
- I started getting very low on operating memory so I got an external hard drive with a fire wire and began backing everything up. I took all my photos in the Photos folder off my desktop altogether and trashed them, so I had more operating memory.
- I did this in May/June
- I also had photos from 2004/2005/2006 on there which were from before I had a Mac and uploaded to iPhoto
- I've since overwritten this folder with a new (thus virtually empty with only a few recent photos) version and I think I've done it twice since I originally backed everything up, but I've only just realised I've been overwriting everything.
- I've looked in that iPhoto library in Pictures that I have and I can recover some photos, but there appears to be a lot missing and because I'm a keen photographer who is anal about editing and organising (the irony!) my photos, they're all mixed up - which is why I had them in separate folders in the first place
Is there ANYTHING I can do?
Can they be recovered from the hard drive itself?
Is there software that can be downloaded free or paid for to do this?
I've googled it a bit and it looks like there's stuff you can download for a PC. I have access to a PC, so I can have a go on that if that's what it takes.
If they can't be salvaged from the hard drive, will I perhaps be able to find them in a secret place on my MacBook from the time I trashed the original folders a couple of months ago? 'Secret place' is about as technical as I get!
I can't get an appointment at the Genius Bar for a while. Any help on this would be much appreciated. I know I'm an idiot - but I was half way to being a non-idiot by backing up in the first place...so small victories...!
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Basics of File Recovery
If you simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash (left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate delete rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone. Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive - shut it down. When files are deleted only the directory entries, not the files themselves, is modified. The space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, but the files are still on the drive. Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and cannot be recovered.
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
Since it sounds like you overwrote files and folders then the data that were overwritten are gone for good and can not be recovered.
In the future you should make multiple backups including an archival backup on DVD media that can be stored away safely. It's good that you have some backups, but your backup plan is obviously inadequate.

Hard Drive Failure on HP DV 6000 Pavilion laptop Windows-XPsp3 OS - Need Data Recovery Help

Hard Drive Failure on HP DV 6000 Pavilion laptop - Need Data Recovery Help
HP Pavilion DV 6108 NR, RG365UA, purchased in late 2006 at Best Buy, with Windows XP, upgraded to Service Pack 3. It has a Fujitsu hard disk, 60 gigabyte, partitioned into C: and a Recovery D:.
Windows tries to boot up, but goes to blue screen with the message: "Unmountable Boot Volume" for one second, then just keeps recycling until I force a shutdown.
BIOS Phoenix, hard drive test result: " #1-08 Fail "
I ran a disk analysis/recovery program on the Cdrive and it seemed to show the directory structure intact, and it was able to recover some files. I was using the free one from Seagate (which only recovers small files). The second pass didn't run so well, and during the third run the program said I should not proceed further, and I should contact a professional disk recovery company.
However, the D drive seems to be intact, so, I wonder if the disk is corrupted or just some aspect of the logical C drive is bad.
How can I get the D: to run the recovery software on it? The recovery disks, made by Best Buy, only proceed to the R / F / Q option screen, and when I press R, I get a blue screen every time.
Tapping the F10 key during startup gets me nowhere. Ditto the F11 key.
I dont care about the hard disk; it is the data (files, docs, images, etc) that I want.
I contacted HP to order recovery disks but they are no longer available for my computer.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Jon
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I found a website that offers the following:
http://www.computersurgeons.com/p-13442-recovery-kit-435422-001-for-hp-model-number-dv6108nr.aspx
Recovery Kit 435422-001 For HP Model Number dv6108nr
Price: $27.00
Recovery Kit Set (An Entire Image of the Computer hard drive when the computer was new)
But I wonder how useful it would be. Early XP , no doubt. And if my hard disk problem is a mechanical fault, would any recovery disk even work? The disks made by Best Buy when I bought mine new in 2006 don't do anything more than go to the R /F/ Q screen and then goes to a blue screen when I press R (to recover the OS and apps and data files). And, as I wrote, it is the data that I want, not the disk drive.

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