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020819 - Drive Rescue Works Great!
Drive Rescue
As the name shows it recovers data from a hard drive which is erroneously
formatted or FDISKed and so on. It was written by Alexander Grau and is really
a nice software. I downloaded ver. 1.90D but it seems that the software has
been sold to LC Technology now. Probably
FILERECOVERY for Windows
is the commercial version of Drive Rescue.
I connected a Seagate drive once used in 6886 to a clone Win98 system. Set
the drive as slave for the 1st IDE channel and installed Drive Rescue ver.
1.90D. Win98 could not see the drive but Drive Rescue securely detected the
drive. Previously the drive concern was partitioned as:
- C: 1G system, Primary partition
Rest 5G is logical partition and it was divided as:
- D: 2G programs and data (Netscape and MS Office were there)
- E: 1G data (PS/2 downloads, latest scripts for my home page)
- F: 2G data (PS/55, MCA downloads and many files including earlier
version of many scripts for my homepage. Most of these files were backed up in
past Feb.)
Files stored in C partition seemed to be corrupted but the rest of the files
in D, E and F were supposed to be safe and recoverable with Drive Rescue. I
prepared 4G of free space in the master drive and made some directories to save
files from 6G Seagate drive.
Drive Rescue really worked great. Most of the files in the bad drive (well,
logically but not physically) were securely transferred to the master drive of
Win98 system. All the recovered files were moved to Dell with Windows 2000 and
also to my wife's XP system (as a backup). I installed Netscape communicator
4.75 on Dell and overwrite user folder to the files rescued by the software.
Every mails and addresses and news group folders showed up. Down loaded files
and scripts I had written and drawn in past two years came up fine.
I really thank Mr. Alexander Grau who wrote such a great program and once
offered it as a free ware.
Man, be careful to play with a LLFing program on an active system to test
it, keep backing up your data regularly. Home page of Alexander is
here
and ver. 1.0 is here.
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