04-17-2013, 08:36 PM
Data Rescue saved my bacon about 9 years ago when I had a hard drive get badly damaged. It was so bad, even Disk Warrior couldn't see the drive. DR managed to not only see it, but recover about 60% of my files. Granted, it took 11 days for it to do the deep scan and recovery, but it worked.
I've used it twice since then, both times on other people's drives. Recovered 100% of files both times. Interestingly, a friend of one of those people had a PC hard drive go bad and we tried the PC version of DR. It didn't recover anything. Coincidence?
Oddly enough, I recently came upon that hard drive from 9 years ago. I had put it in anti-static wrap and stored it away. I decided to see if the new version of Data Rescue, on a much faster machine, would be able to recover anything. It ran for a while, but finally came back and said it couldn't. So I decided to destroy the drive by opening it up. when I looked at the platters, there was a gouge in one of them, obviously where the head crashed onto it.
I've used it twice since then, both times on other people's drives. Recovered 100% of files both times. Interestingly, a friend of one of those people had a PC hard drive go bad and we tried the PC version of DR. It didn't recover anything. Coincidence?
Oddly enough, I recently came upon that hard drive from 9 years ago. I had put it in anti-static wrap and stored it away. I decided to see if the new version of Data Rescue, on a much faster machine, would be able to recover anything. It ran for a while, but finally came back and said it couldn't. So I decided to destroy the drive by opening it up. when I looked at the platters, there was a gouge in one of them, obviously where the head crashed onto it.